Classic Ciphers: ROT13, Caesar, Atbash and XOR - SimeonOnSecurity
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When to Reach for These
- ROT13 and Atbash are self-inverse. Running the same operation twice returns the original, so one button both encodes and decodes.
- Caesar with all shifts is the useful version. Rather than guessing the offset, read down the list until a line turns into English.
- XOR with a single-byte key leaves a fingerprint. A one byte key gives a repeating cycle and only 255 candidates, so it falls quickly once you notice the pattern.
- None of this is cryptography. These are teaching and CTF tools. Anything protecting real data uses a modern authenticated cipher, not a substitution alphabet.
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