From 4d08a0d4fa1db306bdcb6c8aadfab654abb8d4a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mdecker62 <nobody@makingwithcode.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:01:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] d

---
 caesar_cracker.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 caesar_cracker.py

diff --git a/caesar_cracker.py b/caesar_cracker.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..471ee8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/caesar_cracker.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from collections import Counter
+
+def crack_caesar(ciphertext):
+
+    counts = Counter(ciphertext.upper())
+
+    most_common_letter = counts.most_common(1)[0][0]
+
+    alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
+
+    shift = (alphabet.index(most_common_letter) - alphabet.index("E")) % 26
+
+    return shift
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