How to Use A Caesar Cipher Wheel

Posted by PHIL JANELLE

How to Use A Caesar Cipher Wheel

How does a Caesar cipher work? It's not as difficult to learn how to encode and decode secret messages as you may think. You take the alphabet, and shift every letter by a certain number of places. For example: if you shift one place, you would replace each letter with the one that is one place down the alphabet. So A would become B, B would become C, and so on.  In this example, with a right shift of one,  the word CLUE it becomes DMVF Better yet, instead of calling it a shift, let's use what is known as a...