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by josefdlange 1610 days ago
For simple sharing without giving it away, what about a RotN where N starts at an arbitrary value (13, for example) but increments for each successive character?

ALPHA

becomes

NZEXR

This way, repeats become opaque. Seems clear enough to share in the clear where _breaking_ the cipher isn't a big concern, just immediately recognizing the answer or patterns in it, is.