cipher if you' like to learn about ciphers and code breaking in generalyou can read my book cracking codes with python (no starch press nostarch com/crackingcodes/the program in action when you run caesarcipher pythe output will look like thiscaesar cipherby al sweigart al@inventwithpython com do you want to ( )ncrypt or ( )ecrypte please enter the key ( to to use enter the message to encrypt meet me by the rose bushes tonight qiix qi fc xli vswi fywliw xsrmklx full encrypted text copied to clipboard caesar cipherby al sweigart al@inventwithpython com do you want to ( )ncrypt or ( )ecryptd please enter the key ( to to use enter the message to decrypt qiix qi fc xli vswi fywliw xsrmklx meet me by the rose bushes tonight full decrypted text copied to clipboard how it works like most cipher programsthe caesar cipher works by translating characters into numbersperforming some math operations on those numbersand translating the numbers back into text characters in the context of cipherswe call these text characters symbols symbols can include lettersnumeric digitsand punctuation markseach of which gets assigned unique integer in the case of the caesar cipher programthe symbols are all lettersand their integers are their position in the symbols string'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz """caesar cipherby al sweigart al@inventwithpython com the caesar cipher is shift cipher that uses addition and subtraction to encrypt and decrypt letters more info at view this code at tagsshortbeginnercryptographymath"" try import pyperclip pyperclip copies text to the clipboard except importerror pass if pyperclip is not installeddo nothing it' no big deal project #