Cryptography: Caesar Cipher Wheel
This program recreates a Caesar cipher wheel. The Caesar cipher wheel, or shift wheel, is one of the simplest encryption methods. To use it, each letter is replaced by a letter a certain number of positions around the wheel.
Instructions:
Instructions:
- To use the program, set the secret key by either clicking the arrows in the center of the wheel, pressing the right arrow key, or pressing the spacebar (increase the key, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) or by pressing the left arrow key (decreases the number, 1, 0, 25, 24, 23, etc.).
- To encrypt a message, replace your messages letters with the ones on the inner, blue wheel.
- To decrypt a message, replace the encrypted letters with the letters on the outer, white wheel.
- Make sure each person sharing messages is uses the same secret key.
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Click the link below to download a printable version of a Caesar Cipher wheel.
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