The Caesar shift is a symmetric substitution cypher that slides every letter by  places alphabetically in order to obtain the cyphertext and slides every letter back by
 places alphabetically in order to obtain the cyphertext and slides every letter back by  places in order to obtain the plaintext. In other words, for every letter
 places in order to obtain the plaintext. In other words, for every letter  , in order to obtain the cyphered letter
, in order to obtain the cyphered letter  , you do:
, you do:
 
In order to obtain the plaintext letter  , the reverse operation can be performed:
, the reverse operation can be performed:
