CRYPTOGRAPHY

ENCRYPTING AND DECRYPTING MESSAGES USING

CAESAR CIPHER
 HISTORY OF
CRYPTOGRAPHY
 CRYPTOGRAPHY
-originated from the Greek words, “krypto”
which means hidden and “graphene” which
means writing. It is the making or breaking of
secret codes. It is the making or breaking a
secret codes.
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS and
MESOPOTAMIANS were the first to use
basic encryption. The practice became
more sophisticated in ancient Greece with
philosophers like Polybios.
 CRYPTOGRAPHY
-Leon Battista Alberti was the father of
Cryptography.
- It uses two processes namely:
1. Encryption
2. Decryption
ENCRYPTIO
N the process of transforming plain text into

code form using a certain algorithm.
EXAMPLE:
Math is fun (Plain Context)…….Original Message
PDWK LV IXQ (Coded form)…….Cipher text
DECRYPTION
 The process of converting back the
coded message into plain text.
KEY
- Refers to the strings of
information that is used to reveal
the encrypted message into
readable form.
 METHODS OF
CRYPTOGRAPHY
• SHIFT CIPHER (CEASAR CIPHER)
• MODULO OPERATOR
 “CAESAR CIPHER”

 Julius Caesar used this type of cipher when

sending messages to his military
commanders.
SHIFT CIPHER (CEASAR CIPHER)
 involves replacing each letter in the message
by a letter that is some fixed number of
positions further along in the alphabet. We'll
call this number the encryption key.
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