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CAESAR(6)			  Games	Manual			     CAESAR(6)

NAME
       caesar, rot13 --	decrypt	caesar ciphers

SYNOPSIS
       caesar [rotation]
       rot13

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

       The  optional numerical argument	rotation may be	used to	specify	a spe-
       cific rotation value.  If invoked as rot13, a rotation value of 13 will
       be used.

       The frequency (from most	common to least) of English letters is as fol-
       lows:

	     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.

FreeBSD	14.3		       November	16, 1993		     CAESAR(6)

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