Cipher Wheel Template Guide
Cipher Disk Templates. Create out your own cipher disks. View a printable version of Cipher Disk 1 and Cipher Disk 2. Print out each cipher disk, paste on card stock, cutout, and assemble your own set of cipher disks.
It is time to keep your messages away from prying eyes. Are you interested in finding out more about ciphers and codes? Book by David Kahn is what I would start with. How to make a cipher wheel Here are 6 material you will require in making a cipher wheel.
Cipher Disk Template
Glue stick. Pen or pencil.
Paper fastener or split pin. Cipher wheel template. How to make a cipher wheel (using premade template). Print off the cipher wheel.
Blank Cipher Wheel Template
Then cut the wheels out and glue them onto the card with the glue stick. Carefully cut both of the cipher wheels out. Then write the alphabet in the outer boxes of both the small and large wheel.
Using a sharp pencil, punch a hole through the center of both wheels. Then push the paper fastener through the smaller wheel and then through the larger wheel. Then open the split pin at the back so that the wheel are fastened together. How to make a cipher wheel (from scratch).
You need two concentric circles; one should be larger than the other. Then punch a hole in the middle of both and attach with a brass fastener so the inner wheel can move independent of the outer wheel. Then divide the entire circle into 26 sections. You can use a protractor to divide the circle into equal segments of about 13.8 degrees each.
Then write the letters of the alphabet, in order, on both circles. Then decide on the key to use for encoding your message. Finally turn the inner wheel based on the key.
To encrypt, look at the inner wheel and write down the letter that matches on the outer wheel. How to encrypt using cipher wheel First, choose a key to use. To encode, simply align the circles so there is the same letter on the outer and on the inner circle. Plaintext: Kifanga. Thus, ciphertext: dbytgzt How to decrypt using cipher wheel Simply move the inner circle the number of times based on the key used to encode the message. Then, to decode look at the encrypted letter on the inner circle and write down the letter on the outer circle above it.
Do this for the entire letters to get the original message at the end. What are the variants of the cipher wheel Cipher discs have many variations based on the basic design.
For example, instead of numbers only, one can use combinations of numbers on the outer disk with each combination corresponding to a letter.
