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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 specific
     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 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.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	November 16, 1993		       CAESAR(6)

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