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Below is an audio track that enhances the eerie theme of cryptography and mystery! Play if you dare!
The Caesar Cipher is a substitution cipher where a certain number of positions shifts each letter in the plaintext. This is one of the simplest forms of encryption, used by Julius Caesar to protect his messages. The encryption formula is:
C = (P + k) % 26
Where:
Here’s an example with a shift of 3. The message is a quote from a famous movie:
| Original Letter | Shifted by 3 |
|---|---|
| M | P |
| A | D |
| Y | B |
| F | I |
| O | R |
| R | U |
| C | F |
| E | H |
| W | Z |
| I | L |
| T | W |
| H | K |
| Y | B |
| O | R |
| U | X |
The encrypted message is: "Pdb wkh Irufh eh zlwk brx"
A Columnar Transposition Cipher works by writing the plaintext in rows of a fixed length and then reading the columns vertically in a scrambled order. This cipher does not alter the letters but rearranges their position. The formula used is:
Columns = Message Length ÷ Column Width
Here’s an example using the same message as before, "May the Force be with you," and writing it into columns of width 5:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | A | Y | T | H |
| E | F | O | R | C |
| E | B | E | W | I |
| T | H | Y | O | U |
To create the ciphertext, we read the columns in a specific order. For example, reading columns 3, 1, 4, 5, 2, we get:
"YTEO MYHT FWRO OHC EBI"