As discussed above, however, although the Caesar cipher provides a great introduction to cryptography, in the computer age it is no longer a secure way to send encrypted communications electronically.

Secret code or foreign language? For machines, it might not matter. Without any prior knowledge, artificial intelligence algorithms have cracked two classic forms of encryption: the Caesar cipher ...

Caesar Ciphers are very simple methods of encryption because the work by shifting the alphabet over a few characters and matching up the letters (see the picture above)—in fact, if you've ever ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Caesar cipher is a very simple encryption method and is easily cracked if one studies the frequency of repeating ...