rot13 (6)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man6/rot13.6".)

NAME

caesar rot13 - decrypt caesar ciphers

SYNOPSIS

[rotation ]

DESCRIPTION

The utility attempts to decrypt caesar ciphers using English letter frequency statistics. reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output.

The optional numerical argument rotation may be used to specify a specific rotation value.

The frequency (from most common to least) of English letters is as follows:

ETAONRISHDLFCMUGPYWBVKXJQZ

Their frequencies as a percentage are as follows:

E(13), T(10.5), A(8.1), O(7.9), N(7.1), R(6.8), I(6.3), S(6.1), H(5.2), D(3.8), L(3.4), F(2.9), C(2.7), M(2.5), U(2.4), G(2), P(1.9), Y(1.9), W(1.5), B(1.4), V(.9), K(.4), X(.15), J(.13), Q(.11), Z(.07).

Rotated postings to USENET and some of the databases used by the fortune(6) program are rotated by 13 characters.