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Cipher
Input
Output
Caesar shiftcipher3shiftencodedirection0chars

Caesar shift

Every letter moves forward in the alphabet by the shift amount, wrapping from Z back to A. A shift of 3 turns HELLO into KHOOR. Numbers, spaces, and punctuation pass through unchanged.

Encode and decode

Decoding reverses the shift, so decoding with the same shift value used to encode returns the original text. The one exception is a shift of 13: since 13 is half of 26, encoding and decoding produce identical output, which is why ROT13 has no separate decode mode.

ROT47

ROT47 extends the same idea across all 94 printable ASCII characters instead of only the 52 letters. Hello, World! becomes w6==@[ (@C=5P, with the digits and punctuation rotated along with the letters. Like ROT13, ROT47 is self-inverse because 47 is half of 94.

Where these ciphers are used

Caesar shifts show up in puzzle hunts, cryptography exercises, and escape rooms. ROT13 and ROT47 turned up historically in Usenet posts and forum threads to hide spoilers or profanity from a casual glance, not to provide real security.

Frequently Asked Questions

A Caesar shift cipher with an adjustable shift from 0 to 25, and ROT47, which rotates every printable ASCII character (33 to 126) by 47 positions instead of just letters.

13, which is exactly half of the 26-letter alphabet. That makes ROT13 its own inverse: running the same text through ROT13 twice returns the original text, so there is no separate decode step.

ROT47 works over the 94 printable ASCII characters from ! to ~, not just A-Z, so it also scrambles digits, punctuation, and symbols. That makes it common for obscuring text in forum posts and source code comments where a plain Caesar shift would leave numbers and punctuation readable.

No. With only 26 possible shifts, a Caesar-shifted message can be brute-forced by hand in under a minute. It has no place protecting real secrets; use it for puzzles, obfuscation, or learning how substitution ciphers work.

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