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Code Breaking and Decoding ToolsThe following codes and ciphers are detailed below, click to go straight to one or carry on reading:,.Creating and decoding secret messages has played a pivotal role throughout history and in many fictional novels, from the Caesar Cipher by Julias Caesar, through to the Enigma Machine in World War II to the various codes in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.Detailed below are various decoding tools, starting with the simplest and progressing to the increasingly complicated. In The Da Vinci Game, several of the Logic Key challenges use simple variants of these codes which can be deciphered manually. They are provided here simply for your enjoyment.For more information about The Da Vinci Board Game itself, please see the links on the left.Modern CodesThe invention of the computer along with the development of modern Internet connection media like broadband, has meant that modern codes are immeasurably more complicated than the codes described below, with the possibility to transform a message in innumerable ways. The Enigma machine used in World War II is probably the earliest example of this.Even with this encryption the challenge is still to pass on the decoding mechanism or key to the intended recipient of messages in a way in which it cannot be intercepted, as if the key falls into someone else's hands, then you may as well be writing your code in plain English.Atbash CipherThe Atbash Cipher is a simple substition cipher where the first letter of the alphabet is exchanged with the last letter of the alphabet and so on. It is the simplest cipher because it only allows one possible way to decode a word. That said, the cipher will vary depending on the alphabet; for the English alphabet simply exchange the letter in the code for the letter either below or above it in the following table:Q1. Using the Atbash cipher, what does the code YRYOV become? (a book that contains several words coded using this cipher).Caesar Shift Decoder (also called the Caesar Cipher)The Caesar Shift allows you to encode text in one of 25 different ways, by shifting each letter between 1 and 25 'steps' along the alphabet, so a shift of 1 would mean A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.
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To download a free copy of a which allows you to see all 25 possible Caesar Shifts simultaneously, please click. You will need Microsoft Excel to view and use the attachment.The Caesar Shift or Caesar Cipher can be made more complicated by having a different shift for different letters in the sequence, as in the recent code that Judge Peter Smith hid in the document of this judgement in The Da Vinci Code vs. Holy Blood, Holy Grail case.Q2. Using the Caesar Cipher, what does the code P BOO WK CYX become?