Julius Caesar protected his confidential information by encrypting it using a cipher. Caesar's cipher shifts each letter by a number of letters. If the shift takes you past the end of the alphabet, just rotate back to the front of the alphabet. In the case of a rotation by 3, w, x, y, and z would map to z, a, b and c.
Original alphabet: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Alphabet rotated +3: defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabc
Example 1
Original Message: hello how are you.
Key: 4
Encrypted Message: lipps lsa evi csy
Julius Caesar protected his confidential information by encrypting it using a cipher. Caesar's cipher shifts each letter by a number of letters. If the shift takes you past the end of the alphabet, just rotate back to the front of the alphabet. In the case of a rotation by 3, w, x, y, and z would map to z, a, b and c.
Original alphabet: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Alphabet rotated +3: defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabc
Example 1 Original Message: hello how are you. Key: 4 Encrypted Message: lipps lsa evi csy