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28.Dd November 16, 1993
29.Dt CAESAR 6
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm caesar , rot13
33.Nd decrypt caesar ciphers
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Op Ar rotation
37.Nm rot13
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41utility attempts to decrypt caesar ciphers using English letter frequency
42statistics.
43.Nm Caesar
44reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output.
45.Pp
46The optional numerical argument
47.Ar rotation
48may be used to specify a specific rotation value.
49If invoked as
50.Nm rot13 ,
51a rotation value of 13 will be used.
52.Pp
53The frequency (from most common to least) of English letters is as follows:
54.Bd -ragged -offset indent
55ETAONRISHDLFCMUGPYWBVKXJQZ
56.Ed
57.Pp
58Their frequencies as a percentage are as follows:
59.Bd -ragged -offset indent
60E(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),
61D(3.8), L(3.4), F(2.9), C(2.7), M(2.5), U(2.4), G(2),
62P(1.9), Y(1.9),
63W(1.5), B(1.4), V(.9), K(.4), X(.15), J(.13), Q(.11), Z(.07).
64.Ed
65.Pp
66Rotated postings to
67.Tn USENET
68and some of the databases used by the
69.Xr fortune 6
70program are rotated by 13 characters.
71