RE: Rot 13
RE: Rot 13
- Subject: RE: Rot 13
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:44:13 -0300
At 8:04 AM -0400 02/07/01, Bourque, Jason wrote:
What is rot13?
It's an ultra-low-end encoding scheme to keep children under 8 or 10
from reading your messages (and probably your wife too, if she's not
big on computers). Ooops, you're older than that. ;-)
It treats the space of alphabetic characters a-z as a continuous
loop, and shifts characters 13 positions forward (or backward) in the
loop (your choice as it amounts to the same thing). Because there are
26 letters, shifting another 13 will restore the original text.
Accented characters and punctuation are not shifted.
If you're a Eudora user, Rot13 is available under the Edit > Message
Plug-ins menu, so you can decode any of the incoming Clingon without
resorting to AppleScript.
If you want to encode anything so it really is tough to get at, or
you want to twig Echelon to take a crack at your message, you'll need
to resort to something stronger, like PGP.
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