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ROT-18 Cipher
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What is ROT-18? (Definition)
ROT-18 is the name given to 2 shift encryption methods, similar to the famous ROT-13 but using the 36 alphanumeric characters.
— Definition 1: Association of ROT-13 and ROT-5 (and 13+5=18), the letters are shifted by 13 (in the 26-letter alphabet ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ) and the numbers by 5 (in the list 0123456789)
— Definition 2: Use of a 36-character alphanumeric alphabet (26 letters and 10 numbers), the characters are then shifted by 18 positions.
These 2 definitions produce different and incompatible results.
How to encrypt using ROT-18 cipher?
To encode by ROT-18, take each character of the message to encode.
— (ROT-13 + ROT-5): Replace the letters (A-Z) with those located 13 positions later in the looping alphabet and replace the numbers (0-9) with those located 5 positions later in the loop
Example: A becomes N, Z becomes M and 0 becomes 5 and 9 becomes 4
— (ROT-18): Replace the characters (A-Z0-9) with those located 18 positions later in the 36-character alphanumeric alphabet: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
Non-alphanumeric characters remain unchanged (such as spaces, punctuation or symbols)
How to decrypt ROT-18 cipher?
Decryption is the same as encryption (regardless of the definition used). ROT-18 is a reversible cipher. Decoding involves applying ROT-18 again to the encoded message.
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