Cipher Demonstration

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Ceasar Cipher Vigenere One Time Pad XOR
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Cipher Demonstration

Cipher Demonstration: Exploring the World of Encryption 

Cryptography is an essential part of modern life, and understanding how it works is key to staying safe online. To help you understand ciphers better, we’re going to explore a few popular encryption techniques with a cipher demonstration. We’ll take a look at Caesar Cipher, Vigenere Cipher and Playfair Cipher as well as RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) encryption.

We'll start by introducing the basics 

– what are ciphers? : Ciphers are methods used for encrypting data so that only those who have access can read or decipher it. They use algorithms which involve substituting letters or numbers for other symbols in order to create coded messages that can only be decrypted using specific keys or passwords.  

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Definition of a Cipher

The Caesar cipher was named after Julius Caesar who famously used this method for sending secret messages during his military campaigns over 2000 years ago! This type of substitution code uses shifting each letter by three places along the alphabetical sequence; A becomes D, B becomes E etc., thus creating an encrypted message which needs its corresponding key (the number 3 in this case) in order to decode it correctly.  

Types of Ciphers

Vigenere cipher also uses substitution but instead relies on multiple alphabets arranged into grids called ‘tabula recta’ where each row contains every letter of the alphabet shifted one place further than its predecessor from left right across until Z wraps around back up again next door neighbour A at top left corner once more - making 26 possible combinations altogether when combined together with keyword length being equal oor longer than plaintext length itself..  

  Nowadays though there exist many variations on these two classic types such as Playfair Code & Double Transposition Codes both offering additional layers security against potential interception attempts while still retaining their original core principles intact throughout entire process too!

Demonstrating a Cipher

• Alice and Bob are communicating over a network and want to keep their conversations private. They decide to use a cipher to encrypt their messages.
• Alice and Bob agree on a cipher to use. They decide to use a substitution cipher, where each letter of the alphabet is replaced with a different letter. They write down a key that shows which letter is replaced with which other letter.
• Alice then takes her message and substitutes each letter with the letter indicated in the key. For example, if Alice wanted to send the message "hello", and the key said to replace 'h' with 'z', then Alice would send the encrypted message "zellyo".
• Bob receives the encrypted message and looks up the letters in the key to decrypt the message. He replaces each letter in the encrypted message with the letter indicated in the key. In this example, he would replace 'z' with 'h' and get the message "hello".
• Alice and Bob have now successfully encrypted and decrypted a message using a substitution cipher.

   Finally let's talk about RSA encryption which stands out amongst rest due largely thanks due its ability offer stronger form protection compared others mentioned above because unlike them does not rely solely upon single set rules but rather combines several different mathematical equations working together simultaneously produce results required provide secure communication between sender receiver without fear third party interception taking place either end transaction itself.