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    Hi Guys,

    As part ofr a little project im working on i need to create a program whcih reads in a text file and encrypts it using a ceaser cipher.

    "The Caesar Cipher is one of the oldest and simplest methods of substitution which was used by Julius Caesar, who added 3 to each of his letter numbers to conceal the real message. For example, he would add 3 to the first letter A to make D. The alphabet was treated as a circle, so when he got to X, he moved 3 letters to Z and then to Y would come back around making it A. Using the Caesar cipher, from "Testing", we get “whvwlqj”. The Caesar cipher may be summarised in a table, shown below (Murky, 2004)."

    So basically i have a program which reads in the text file into a string.

    say for example its


    what i am trying to do is basically read in the string and shift each character along 3 ( a will become c) . i have tried this by converting it to ascii and +3 but i gte loads of random characters . does anyone know a simple way of doing this


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    Default Re: creating a ceaser cipher

    Can you please post the code you have so far? It makes it easier to see how far along you are. Simply adding 3 to a byte ascii value doesn't make it circular, and doesn't take into account lower case and upper case.

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    Default Re: creating a ceaser cipher

    I put it together as:
    	public static String encrypt(String s) {
    		for(char letter : s.toCharArray())  {
    	                s += (char) ((letter - 32 + 3) % 96 + 32);
                    }
    		return s.substring(s.length() / 2);
    	}
    Last edited by Time; November 14th, 2010 at 10:29 AM.

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    Default Re: creating a ceaser cipher

    I dont really need to post the code because im going to start again.

    I did try and change the plaintext character to its ascii number + 3 and then convert it back however i can only use charcters in the range of 33-126 (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~pham/ascii_table.jpg) I understand

    So for example i have

    text: Hello123~
    ascii: H=72, e=101, l=108, l=108, o=111, 1=49, 2=50, 3=51, ~=176

    if i was to for example add 1 to each ascii number the ~ will be come 177 which when converted back to its charcter will be the DEL caharcter. So i need some wat to wrap it around so if it goes over 176 it goes back to 33 and up .

    Also i have had problems when i convert the test to a Char array the spaces become '#' characters

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