What is Caesar Cipher ?
It is one of the simplest encryption technique in which each character in plain text is replaced by a character some fixed number of positions down to it.
For example, if key is 3 then we have to replace character by another character that is 3 position down to it. Like A will be replaced by D, C will be replaced by F and so on.
For decryption just follow the reverse of encryption process.
Program for Caesar Cipher in C
Encryption
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char message[100], ch;
int i, key;
printf("Enter a message to encrypt: ");
gets(message);
printf("Enter key: ");
scanf("%d", &key);
for(i = 0; message[i] != '\0'; ++i){
ch = message[i];
if(ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z'){
ch = ch + key;
if(ch > 'z'){
ch = ch - 'z' + 'a' - 1;
}
message[i] = ch;
}
else if(ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z'){
ch = ch + key;
if(ch > 'Z'){
ch = ch - 'Z' + 'A' - 1;
}
message[i] = ch;
}
}
printf("Encrypted message: %s", message);
return 0;
}
Decryption
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char message[100], ch;
int i, key;
printf("Enter a message to decrypt: ");
gets(message);
printf("Enter key: ");
scanf("%d", &key);
for(i = 0; message[i] != '\0'; ++i){
ch = message[i];
if(ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z'){
ch = ch - key;
if(ch < 'a'){
ch = ch + 'z' - 'a' + 1;
}
message[i] = ch;
}
else if(ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z'){
ch = ch - key;
if(ch < 'A'){
ch = ch + 'Z' - 'A' + 1;
}
message[i] = ch;
}
}
printf("Decrypted message: %s", message);
return 0;
}