Caesar cipher (Formula) AKA shift cipher, Caesar shift
Caesar cipher
80 BC
AKA shift cipher, Caesar shift
Type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.
For example, with a left shift of 3, D would be replaced by A, E would become B, and so on. The method is named after Julius Caesar, who used it in his private correspondence
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