How Do You Decode Or Decrypt A Caesar Cipher?
• Use an example from the book, 128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78 is found by using the first letter of each chapter number (E.G. 128 would be W). • when you have figured that 128-10-93-85-10-128-98-112-6-6-25-126-39-1-68-78 is formed into “WECGEWHYAAIORTNU” you put it into a Caesar Cipher like so: • ——W E C G • —–E W H Y • —–A A I O • —–R T N U • (Don’t forget that all Caesar Ciphers are formed on a perfect square; Since there are 16 letters in this cipher, this square is formed of four lines and four columns) • You now write (or type) it out from the top (line 1, column 1) down on each column: WEAREWATCHINGYOU Understand what it says? • Add in the spaces to finish decrypting it into… “WE ARE WATCHING YOU” You are finished! You can now set up some of your own by writing a sentence where each words first letter will form a sentence for example “Harry is table handy every right evening ” would be “H I T H E R E”, now use common sense to make it into “HI THE
