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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
a technique for encryption that shifts the alphabet by some number of characters
A
Cipher
B
Cracking encryption
C
Caesar Cipher
D
Caesar Cipher
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Caesar cipher is based on transposition and involves shifting each letter of the plaintext message by a certain number of letters, historically three, as shown in Figure 5.1. The ciphertext can be decrypted by applying the same number of shifts in the opposite direction.

Detailed explanation-2: -In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as shift cipher, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Caesar cipher is a simple method of encoding messages. Caesar ciphers use a substitution method where letters in the alphabet are shifted by some fixed number of spaces to yield an encoding alphabet. A Caesar cipher with a shift of 1 would encode an A as a B, an M as an N, and a Z as an A, and so on.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Caesar Shift cipher is a type of mono-alphabetic substitution cipher where each letter of the plain text is shifted a fixed number of places down the alphabet. For example, with a shift of 1, letter A would be replaced by letter B, letter B would be replaced by letter C, and so on.

Detailed explanation-5: -To encrypt a message, enter the message in the Plaintext textbox, specify the shift, and click Encrypt. To decrypt a message, enter the message in the Ciphertext textbox, specify the shift, and click Decrypt.

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