Definition:Caesar Cipher/Caesar Shift
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Definition
Let $n$ be the constant number of places along in the alphabet by which a Caesar cipher encodes a plaintext message.
The constant $n$ is referred to as the Caesar shift.
Also see
- Results about Caesar ciphers can be found here.
Sources
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Caesar cipher
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Caesar shift