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Happy Birthday, Edgar Allen Poe

In which I celebrate the life of Edgar Allen Poe

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Monoalphabetic Substitution

A monoalphabetic substitution is one where a letter of plaintext always produces the same letter of ciphertext. The simplest examples of monoalphabetic substitutions are probably the Caesar Cipher and Atbash. These are special cases, of the more general substitution, so you may like to read the description of these first. In general, an example of a monoalphabetic substitution is shown below. PLAINTEXT [...]

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Atbash

Atbash is a simple substitution very similar in nature to the Caesar Substitution. Whereas the Caesar substitution was Roman in origin, atbash is Jewish in origin. In atbash, the last letter represents the first, the second to last represents the second and so on.

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The Caesar Shift

A look at the Caesar Cipher, one of the simplest ciphers.

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