Classic Ciphers Explained

This episode is part of an educational series that describe a structural approach that can help you solve mystery geocaches. Please visit the channel for more videos on how to solve mystery geocaches. This episode is a background episode on classic ciphers commonly used in Geocaches puzzle caches and covers mono-alphabetic ciphers like caesar, atbash and substitution ciphers, transition ciphers like route transposition, rail fence and columnar transposition as well as poly-alphabetic ciphers like vigener, playfair and four square. Although no real puzzle caches are discussed in this episode, it may help provide more details on these specifics and how they work.