
History:
Named after Julius Caesar, a Roman General, who used it with a shift of three
(A becoming D when encrypting, and D becoming A when decrypting)
to protect messages of military significance.

How does it work?
Each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter at some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.
For example, with a left shift of 3, D is replaced by A, E become B, and so on.