[Cryptography] rot13 for the 21st century

Christian Huitema huitema at huitema.net
Wed Sep 29 02:16:32 EDT 2021


On 9/28/2021 6:04 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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> On 26/09/2021 05:08, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:14:55PM -0400, John Levine wrote:
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>>> Fans of the traditional rot13 cipher should check out rot8000,
>>> same idea except that the character set ie expanded to 16 bit Unicode,
>>> and you rutate by 0x8000 rather than 13.  It has the nice 
>>> characteristic
>>> that encoded ASCII looks like Chinese.
>>>
>>> Try it out here:
>>>
>>> http://rot8000.com/
>>
>> Cute.  Thanks!
>
> Yep. Wonder if there's a string that's meaningful
> in both versions?
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> S.
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