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Renaming Caesar Cipher to Caesar cipher (lower case) (#2529)
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exercises/simple-cipher/description.md

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Ciphers are very straight-forward algorithms that allow us to render text less readable while still allowing easy deciphering.
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They are vulnerable to many forms of cryptanalysis, but Caesar was lucky that his enemies were not cryptanalysts.
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The Caesar Cipher was used for some messages from Julius Caesar that were sent afield.
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The Caesar cipher was used for some messages from Julius Caesar that were sent afield.
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Now Caesar knew that the cipher wasn't very good, but he had one ally in that respect: almost nobody could read well.
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So even being a couple letters off was sufficient so that people couldn't recognize the few words that they did know.
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Your task is to create a simple shift cipher like the Caesar Cipher.
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This image is a great example of the Caesar Cipher:
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Your task is to create a simple shift cipher like the Caesar cipher.
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This image is a great example of the Caesar cipher:
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![Caesar Cipher][img-caesar-cipher]
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![Caesar cipher][img-caesar-cipher]
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For example:
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In the example above, we've set a = 0 for the key value.
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So when the plaintext is added to the key, we end up with the same message coming out.
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So "aaaa" is not an ideal key.
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But if we set the key to "dddd", we would get the same thing as the Caesar Cipher.
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But if we set the key to "dddd", we would get the same thing as the Caesar cipher.
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## Step 3
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