On Sat, 8 May 2021 22:52:01 -0400, Thomas Jones-Low <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:

>	This then reminds me of the Cesar cypher. Take a strip of paper one character
>wide and wind it as a spiral around cylinder. The message is then written down
>the length of the cylinder (one character per cycle). The paper is then
>unspooled from the cylinder. The message than is cyphered until you wrapped
>around a same size of cylinder.

No, this isn't the Caesar Cypher; you've described the scytale. Caesar is
essentially ROT-3.

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