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by JoshuaMulliken 2485 days ago
"military-grade encryption" in marketing materials always scares me. Just tell me what the algos are
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ROT13 of course, designed to Roman military specifications.
Caesar ciphers mostly shifted by 1 or 3. Their alphabet had only 23 letters (no J, U, or W) so ROT-13 wouldn't had the cool property of being its own inverse.
ROT13 is 4 rounds of Caesar-3 and one round of Caesar-1, and multiple rounds of encryption and mixing different modes makes it that much more secure, right?
My mistake, ROT-13 is actually beyond military grade :D