Tool to decrypt/encrypt Wabun code. Wabun code is a variant of Morse code used mainly to transmit japanese text written phonetically in kanas.
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The Wabun Code, sometimes called kana code, is a variant of the Morse code used to transmit Japanese text. It converts kana characters (hiragana and katakana) into signal sequences, a unique combination of dots (short signals) and dashes (long signals), thus facilitating communication using the Morse system.
Wabun Encryption uses a correspondence between kana and a Morse-like code. All words in latin alphabet are not available for ciphering, as Wabun is limited to these Japanese syllables/moras:
a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, sa, shi, su, se, so, ta, chi, tsu, te, to, na, ni, nu, ne, no, ha, hi, fu, he, ho, ma, mi, mu, me, mo, ya, yu, yo, ra, ri, ru, re, ro, wa, wi, n, we, wo, kya, kyu, kyo, sha, shu, sho, cha, chu, cho, nya, nyu, nyo, hya, hyu, hyo, mya, myu, myo, rya, ryu, ryo, ga, gi, gu, ge, go, gya, gyu, gyo, za, ji, zu, ze, zo, ja, ju, jo, da, ji, zu, de, do, ja, ju, jo, ba, bi, bu, be, bo, bya, byu, byo, pa, pi, pu, pe, po, pya, pyu, pyo
Example: To crypt DCODE, better use DE-KO-DE which is translated .-.-- .. ---- .-.-- ..
Texts written in Katakana / Hiragana are also accepted on dCode
Wabun Decryption is a substitution of morse codes in japanese characters (kanas).
Example: The ciphertext .-.-- .. ---- .-.-- .. has 3 characters .-.-- .. (DE デ), ---- (KO コ) and again .-.-- .. (DE デ) so the original plain text is DCODE.
The message is normally composed of codes/signals similar to Morse (2 characters for - and . and another for separation).
Individual Wabun codes signals tend to be longer than International Morse code signals, as they encode multiple characters.
The overall signal length tends to be shorter, as Japanese is often more concise than other languages.
Wabun is already a variant or Morse Code. It is possible to use different characters to encode the morse (other than dot, dash, space).
It is also possible to decode the Morse code obtained as International Morse code, thereby creating an over-encryption.
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