The 'ROT13Wandler' is a small utility to encode text with the ROT13-"Algorithm" (ROTate by 13). This algorithm is not a cryptographic encoding technique, but a very simple encoding algorithm that encodes text by moving every character 13 position in the alphabet. 'A' becomes 'N', 'B' becomes 'O' and so on.

ROT13 is commonly used in the Usenet to post articles which contain text that should not be readable at the first glance. For example a summary of a movie that has just been released, or the solution to riddle posted in the same article. If someone reads the entire text "by accident" he wouldn't have fun any more solving the riddle or watching the movie. So the text has to decode before it is readable. Almost any Newsreader supports decoding ROT13-Text but there are some products, e.g. Microsoft Outlook Express, that do not support encoding text with the ROT13-Algorithm.

So this utlity may be helpful for anyone who wants to encode text with the ROT13-Algorithm but has no build in feature to do this in his newsreader software. Any text may be encoded by two simple Copy&Paste operation. Just copy the readable text in the ROT13Wandler, encode it and copy the encoded text back to programm where you want to use it.

The utility is available as a precompiled binary runing on all 32-Bit Microsoft Windows operating systems. You may as well download the complete sourcecode of the utility. Because the source is quite simple, I hereby do grant you the permission to use, change and redistribute the sourcecode of the ROT13Wandler without any limitation. - Anyway, it would be nice if you send me a short Email if you redistribute the sourcecode or the utility itself.

Download BinaryWin9x/WinNT (166KB) - [Version: 0.1.1.2 / Released 2003/12/28]
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