alleryIn a 26-letter Caesar cipher, a left shift of 3 places equals a right shift of:
A23 places
B21 places
C19 places
D17 places
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. 23 places
Shifting left by 3 positions in modular arithmetic modulo 26 is equivalent to shifting right by 23 places.
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