Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python

Chapter 1 – Making Paper Cryptography Tools 1

MAKING PAPER

CRYPTOGRAPHY TOOLS

Topics Covered In This Chapter:
 What is cryptography?
 Codes and ciphers
 The Caesar cipher
 Cipher wheels
 St. Cyr slides
 Doing cryptography with paper and pencil
 “Double strength” encryption

“I couldn’t help but overhear, probably because I

was eavesdropping.”

Anonymous