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“The skytale (scytale, σκυτάλη "baton"), a cylinder with a strip of parchment wrapped around it on which was written a message, was used by the ancient Greeks and Spartans to communicate secretly during military campaigns. The scytale consisted of a tapered baton, around which was spirally wrapped a strip of parchment or leather on which the message was then written. When unwrapped, the letters were scrambled in order and formed the cipher; however, when the strip was wrapped around another baton of identical proportions to the original, the plaintext reappeared. Refer to : https://www.britannica.com/topic/cryptology/History-ofcryptology# ref392544. For additional information refer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU9zmMuAkJE. We attempt to design and develop a Java program that emulate the encryption and decryption functions of a Scytale.