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Caesar cipher 1 Caesar cipher The action of a Caesar cipher is to replace each plaintext letter with one fixed number of places down the alphabet. This example is with a shift of three, so that a B in the plaintext becomes E in the ciphertext. Detail Structure substitution cipher Best public cryptanalysis Susceptible to frequency analysis and brute force attacks. In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as a Caesars cipher, the shift cipher, Caesars code or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each le