A Caesar Cipher is a method to encode messages by shifting the entire alphabet by an unknown value. For example, a shift of 7 means that a --> h, b --> i, and so on.
caesarCrack.py takes a user inputted string and makes an output file of all 26 Caesar shift possibilities. Then, it runs through each line in the output file and assigns a score based on how many words in the line are real English words. The line with the highest score is outputted as the decoded Message
See testPoss.txt for the output file that contains all the possibilities when the following string was entered:
ftue ue m omqemd oubtqd
The above string is this is a caesar cipher with a shift of 12.
Sample output:
What is your encoded message? ftue ue m omqemd oubtqd
1: 1
2: 1
3: 1
4: 1
5: 1
6: 1
7: 1
8: 1
9: 1
10: 1
11: 1
12: 4
13: 1
14: 1
15: 1
16: 1
17: 1
18: 1
19: 1
20: 2
21: 1
22: 1
23: 1
24: 1
25: 1
Decoded Message: this is a caesar cipher
Process finished with exit code 0