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Solutions: Simple ciphers exercise

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In this video Sam explains some sample solutions for the simple cipher task you tried in the last step. You’ll see an example of how to encrypt and decrypt using the Caesar cipher and also how to encrypt and decrypt using a permutation cipher.

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