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Category:Obfuscation

Dan Tobias: /* Sample files */

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‎Sample files

Dan Tobias at 04:20, 11 January 2014

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Dan Tobias at 17:09, 23 May 2013

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Dan Tobias: /* External links */

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‎External links

Dan Tobias at 23:35, 21 May 2013

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Dan Tobias at 23:35, 21 May 2013

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Dan Tobias at 15:42, 22 April 2013

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Dan Tobias at 09:31, 17 November 2012

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Dan Tobias at 06:23, 7 November 2012

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 == Sample files ==
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/ROT13.MSG A ROT13 message from 1986]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/ROT13.MSG A ROT13 message from 1986]
 == External links ==

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	Geeks have sometimes jokingly referred to something being encrypted in "super-secure" Double-ROT13 encryption; of course, something that's ROT13-encoded twice is actually just plaintext.		Geeks have sometimes jokingly referred to something being encrypted in "super-secure" Double-ROT13 encryption; of course, something that's ROT13-encoded twice is actually just plaintext.
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		+	== Sample files ==
		+	* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/ROT13.MSG A ROT13 message from 1986]

	== External links ==		== External links ==

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	ROT13 is only well-suited for English-language text with few characters other than the [[ASCII]] letters, since anything else (accented letters, other alphabets, numbers, punctuation, mathematical symbols, etc.) are left alone.		ROT13 is only well-suited for English-language text with few characters other than the [[ASCII]] letters, since anything else (accented letters, other alphabets, numbers, punctuation, mathematical symbols, etc.) are left alone.
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		+	Geeks have sometimes jokingly referred to something being encrypted in "super-secure" Double-ROT13 encryption; of course, something that's ROT13-encoded twice is actually just plaintext.

	== External links ==		== External links ==

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 == External links ==
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13 ROT13: Wikipedia]
+* [[Wikipedia:ROT13|Wikipedia article]]
 * [http://www.rot13.com/ rot13.com] - Online ROT13 encrypter/decrypter
 [[Category:E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums]]

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 Some geeky types who hang out a lot in forums where this is used get familiar with some common words, phrases, and acronyms as ROT13 encoded, such as "EBG13".
-ROT13 is only well-suited for English-language text with few characters other than the ASCII letters, since anything else (accented letters, other alphabets, numbers, punctuation, mathematical symbols, etc.) are left alone.
+ROT13 is only well-suited for English-language text with few characters other than the [[ASCII]] letters, since anything else (accented letters, other alphabets, numbers, punctuation, mathematical symbols, etc.) are left alone.
 == External links ==

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	Some geeky types who hang out a lot in forums where this is used get familiar with some common words, phrases, and acronyms as ROT13 encoded, such as "EBG13".		Some geeky types who hang out a lot in forums where this is used get familiar with some common words, phrases, and acronyms as ROT13 encoded, such as "EBG13".
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		+	ROT13 is only well-suited for English-language text with few characters other than the ASCII letters, since anything else (accented letters, other alphabets, numbers, punctuation, mathematical symbols, etc.) are left alone.

	== External links ==		== External links ==

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-Not really intended for security, just a mild amount of obscurity, '''ROT13''' is a system often used for posting spoilers to books and movies, or off-color content that might offend some readers, on newsgroups and forums.  It consists of text in which the letters of the standard 26-letter English alphabet are rotated 13 positions (wrapping around the end/beginning of the alphabet).  Other characters are unchanged.  It doesn't matter whether you rotate forward or backward, since 13 is exactly half of the alphabet and will wind up in the same place either way.  This also means that encrypting and decrypting are the same operation; doing it twice will leave the text exactly how it started.  The result is text that looks "encrypted" and isn't obviously readable, but is easy to decrypt.
+Not really intended for security, just a mild amount of obscurity, '''ROT13''' is a system often used for posting spoilers to books and movies, or off-color content that might offend some readers, on newsgroups and forums.  It consists of text in which the letters of the standard 26-letter English alphabet are rotated 13 positions (wrapping around the end/beginning of the alphabet).  Other characters are unchanged.  It doesn't matter whether you rotate forward or backward, since 13 is exactly half of the alphabet and will wind up in the same place either way.  This means that encrypting and decrypting are the same operation; doing it twice will leave the text exactly how it started.  The result is text that looks "encrypted" and isn't obviously readable, but is easy to decrypt.
 So, for instance, this sentence:
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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13 ROT13: Wikipedia]
 * [http://www.rot13.com/ rot13.com] - Online ROT13 encrypter/decrypter

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-{|
+{{FormatInfo
-|[[File Formats]]
+|formattype=electronic
-| >
+|subcat=Encryption
-|[[Electronic File Formats]]
+}}
-| >
-|[[Encryption]]
-| >
-|[[ROT13]]
-|}
 Not really intended for security, just a mild amount of obscurity, '''ROT13''' is a system often used for posting spoilers to books and movies, or off-color content that might offend some readers, on newsgroups and forums.  It consists of text in which the letters of the standard 26-letter English alphabet are rotated 13 positions (wrapping around the end/beginning of the alphabet).  Other characters are unchanged.  It doesn't matter whether you rotate forward or backward, since 13 is exactly half of the alphabet and will wind up in the same place either way.  This also means that encrypting and decrypting are the same operation; doing it twice will leave the text exactly how it started.  The result is text that looks "encrypted" and isn't obviously readable, but is easy to decrypt.