Friday, May 28, 2010

Ciphers

Cipher also know as encryption is a great tool to hide important information in a unreadible format which can only be found following a code pattern.

It is important to cite some
ciphers that exist nowadays: transpositional ciphers and shift ciphers or caesar's cipher.

Transpotion cipher: a method of encryption by which the letter being encrypted is changed with another letter depending on the system pattern given by the cryptologist.
Example:

HOLIA SOPEL WRDHS RNOII NIHRL OTTSP TCE

Which means: "hello world this transposition cipher "


Caesar's cipher: one of the simplest an most widely known encryption techniques. Is a type of substitution cipher in which eah letter in the text is replaced by a letter with a greater position in the alphabet.

Example:

KHOOR ZRUOG

Which means: "hello world"

Cipher is a useful tool to hide information you might not want to show to anyone..

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