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Although more
secure than the Atbash Cipher, it is still an easy cipher to break, especially by today's standards.
Originally, it was used by Julius Caesar for sending encrypted messages to his troops, as
recorded by Suetonius:
If he had anything confidential to say, he wrote it in cipher, that is, by so changing the order of the letters of the
not a word could be made out. If anyone wishes to decipher these, and get at their meaning, he must substitute t
of the alphabet, namely D, for A, and so with the
(Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars)
This describes what we would now call a shift of 3, and describes the cipher that Caesar used
quite well. That is, "a" was encrypted as "D", "b" as "E", etc. The table below gives the plaintext
alphabet and the ciphertext alphabet to show how a shift of 3 could be depicted.