In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really don't recommend the ROT13 cipher, as this is extremely easy to > > crack. Most grade school kids could break this one in seconds. ;-)
> I think you missed the point. Any recommendation to use ROT13 is likely > to be a joke. A recommendation to use Triple ROT13 is *absolutely* a > joke. ROT13 does have a legitimate use, but it's not as a cypher. It is really the equivalent of the newspaper quiz where the answers are upside down at the bottom of the page. By doing this you stop seeing the answers too early. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list