Because there are only 25 possible keys, Caesar ciphers are very vulnerable to a “brute force” attack, where the decoder simply tries each possible combination of letters. This might take some ...

It turns out that the encryption it uses is just a few baby steps beyond a basic Caesar Cipher. A Caesar Cipher just shifts data by a numeric value. The value is the cipher key. For example ...

But I did finally decide to figure out something that had been gnawing at me for years: what's up with the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin ... is just a simple Caesar cipher in which a particular ...