1.\" $NetBSD: caesar.6,v 1.6 1997/11/12 00:48:29 mrg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)caesar.6 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 35.\" 36.Dd November 16, 1993 37.Dt CAESAR 6 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm caesar , 41.Nm rot13 42.Nd decrypt caesar cyphers 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Nm 45.Op Ar rotation 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm 49utility attempts to decrypt caesar cyphers using English letter frequency 50statistics. 51.Nm 52reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output. 53.Pp 54The optional numerical argument 55.Ar rotation 56may be used to specify a specific rotation value. 57.Pp 58The frequency (from most common to least) of English letters is as follows: 59.Pp 60.Bd -filled -offset indent 61ETAONRISHDLFCMUGPYWBVKXJQZ 62.Ed 63.Pp 64Their frequencies as a percentage are as follows: 65.Pp 66.Bd -filled -offset indent 67E(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), 68D(3.8), L(3.4), F(2.9), C(2.7), M(2.5), U(2.4), G(2), 69P(1.9), Y(1.9), 70W(1.5), B(1.4), V(.9), K(.4), X(.15), J(.13), Q(.11), Z(.07). 71.Ed 72.Pp 73Rotated postings to 74.Tn USENET 75and some of the databases used by the 76.Xr fortune 6 77program are rotated by 13 characters. 78