ROT13

ROT13 (or ROT-13) is a very simple form of encryption cipher. It is a variant of a Caesar cipher. In it, the alphabet is written in two lines, of 13 characters …

ROT13
ROT13 replaces each letter by its partner 13 characters further along the alphabet. For example, HELLO becomes URYYB (or, decrypting, URYYB becomes HELLO again).

ROT13 (or ROT-13) is a very simple form of encryption cipher. It is a variant of a Caesar cipher. In it, the alphabet is written in two lines, of 13 characters each. Encryption, and decryption is done by simply switching the letters that are below each other. That way, A becomes N, B becomes O, and so on.

It is widely used in USENET forums.

Letter games and net culture

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM
aha ↔ nun ant ↔ nag
balk ↔ onyx bar ↔ one
barf ↔ ones be ↔ or
bin ↔ ova ebbs ↔ roof
envy ↔ rail er ↔ re
errs ↔ reef flap ↔ sync
fur ↔ she gel ↔ try
gnat ↔ tang irk ↔ vex
clerk ↔ pyrex purely ↔ cheryl
PNG ↔ cat SHA ↔ fun
furby ↔ sheol terra ↔ green

ROT13 can also be used for letter games. There are some words, that will produce another existing word, when they are treated with ROT13. The longest example in the English language is the pair of 7-letter words abjurer and nowhere; there is also the 7-letter pair chechen and purpura. Other examples of words like these are shown in the table.[1]

The 1989 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) had an entry by Brian Westley. Westley's computer program can be ROT13'd or reversed and still compiles correctly. Its operation, when executed, is either to perform ROT13 encoding on, or to reverse its input.[2]

The newsgroup alt.folklore.urban made a word—furrfu. It was the ROT13 encoding of the frequently encoded utterance "sheesh". "Furrfu" evolved in mid-1992 as a response to postings repeating urban myths on alt.folklore.urban, after some posters complained that "Sheesh!" as a response to newcomers was being overused.[3]

References

  1. ↑ De Mulder, Tom. "ROT13 Words". Furrfu!. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
  2. ↑ Westley, Brian (1989). "westley.c". IOCCC. Archived from the original on 2012-06-09. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
  3. ↑ "Furrfu". Foldoc. 1995-10-25. Archived from the original on 2012-06-20. Retrieved 2007-08-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)


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