On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:28:37 -0600, PW
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iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:36:11 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 21:44:11 -0600, PW >><iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
Not me! I nevver tried to figure these things out.
You need to apply ROT-13. How you do that depends on your news reader.
But do not bother, I already tried taking the game but someone got to
it first.
Using Forte Agent. Don't know what ROT-13 is.
ROT-13 is a simple encoding scheme. It "rotates" the letters of the
alphabet to transform it into one that is 13 characters away, so - for instance, the letter "A" becomes "N", the letter "B" becomes "O", etc.
"CAT" would become "PNG", "DOG" would become "WBT". It's easily
reversible too; apply ROT13 to some already encoded text and it
transforms back to plain-text (because, obviously, ROT-13 + ROT-13 =
ROT-26, which "rotates" the letters through all 26 letters of the
alphabet until it is right back where they started).
Hence the frequent 'jokes' about making stuff extra secure by applying
ROT-13 twice. Normally you'd think multiple applications of an
encoding scheme would make things more secure, but with ROT-13, it
makes it less. It's geek comedy at its best.
ROT-13 is typically used for information that you don't want easily
read but isn't really intended to be secret; punchlines to jokes, or
spoilers for movies, or - as in this case - rendering a game serial
into a format not easily harvested by a 'bot. It doesn't require any
sort of password, its trivially easy to program a decoder, and - in
fact - many people can do it in their head (not me, at least not
anymore. I used to be okay at it)
Anyway, Forte Agent has ROT13 encoding built in. Highlight a bit of
text, press CTRL-3 (or select the ROT13 option in the Edit menu), and
*poof!* instantly encoded (or decoded, if ROT-13 has already been
applied) text.
Alternately, the website
http://rot13.com does the same thing; simply
copy some text into javascript form on the website and it will
encode/decode as necessary.
Here, try it yourself:
Guvf vf n fhcre-frperg EBG-13 rapbqrq zrffntr. Vs lbh pna ernq guvf,
lbh ner pybfre gb trrxqbz guna n ybg bs bgure crbcyr.
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