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rot13
(foldoc) | rot13
/rot ther'teen/ [Usenet: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"],
v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each
English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along
the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre
qvq vg!" Most Usenet news reading and posting programs
include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a
sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for
posting things that might offend some readers, or spoilers.
A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it
is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and
decoding.
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rot13
(jargon) | rot13
/rot ther'teen/, n.,v.
[Usenet: from ‘rotate alphabet 13 places’] The simple Caesar-cypher
encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward
or back along the alphabet, so that “The butler did it!” becomes “Gur
ohgyre qvq vg!” Most Usenet news reading and posting programs include a
rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the
reader must choose to open — e.g., for posting things that might offend
some readers, or spoilers. A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for
other N is that it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for
encoding and decoding. See also spoiler space, which has partly displaced
rot13 since non-Unix-based newsreaders became common.
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