RE: Rot 13
RE: Rot 13
- Subject: RE: Rot 13
- From: "Bourque, Jason" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:43:45 -0400
PGP???
Jason-- Learning as I go : -)
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From: Bill Briggs
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Sent: Monday, July 2, 2001 11:44 AM
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To: Bourque, Jason; AppleScript List
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Subject: RE: Rot 13
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At 8:04 AM -0400 02/07/01, Bourque, Jason wrote:
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>What is rot13?
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It's an ultra-low-end encoding scheme to keep children under 8 or 10
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from reading your messages (and probably your wife too, if she's not
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big on computers). Ooops, you're older than that. ;-)
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It treats the space of alphabetic characters a-z as a continuous
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loop, and shifts characters 13 positions forward (or backward) in the
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loop (your choice as it amounts to the same thing). Because there are
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26 letters, shifting another 13 will restore the original text.
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Accented characters and punctuation are not shifted.
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If you're a Eudora user, Rot13 is available under the Edit > Message
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Plug-ins menu, so you can decode any of the incoming Clingon without
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resorting to AppleScript.
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If you want to encode anything so it really is tough to get at, or
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you want to twig Echelon to take a crack at your message, you'll need
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to resort to something stronger, like PGP.
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