Reading the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper today, I ran across the popularly syndicated JUMBLE puzzle, which is a scrambled word game. Interestingly enough, the versatile UNIX tr command came to mind again. By providing a jumbled alphabet key, the UNIX tr command can perform an elementary encryption operation. Here is a simple example.
To "encrypt" the contents of mysysad.txt in uppercase.
# sh
# cat mysysad.txt | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' | tr '[A-Z]' "PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ" > mysys.txt
# more mysys.txt
GMU GKPJBXPGU WGAXAGL IKOHARUB HUKBPGAXGL DAGMAJ WJAY.
To "decrypt" the contents of mysys.txt in lowercase (original state)
# cat mysys.txt | tr "PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ" '[a-z]'
Or use the echo command per Denis' (commenter) suggestion
# echo "GMU GKPJBXPGU WGAXAGL IKOHARUB HUKBPGAXGL DAGMAJ WJAY." | tr 'PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ' '[a-z]'
4 comments:
mmh ..
echo "GMU GKPJBXPGU WGAXAGL IKOHARUB HUKBPGAXGL DAGMAJ WJAY." | tr 'PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ' '[a-z]'
gives:
sgd sq[mrk[sd tshkhsx oqnuhcdr udqr[shksx vhsghm tmhw.
Perhaps try:
echo "GMU GKPJBXPGU WGAXAGL IKOHARUB HUKBPGAXGL DAGMAJ WJAY." | tr 'PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ' 'a-z'
in place of the previous command
Thanks for this reminder!
ddm
Hi Denis,
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echo "GMU GKPJBXPGU WGAXAGL IKOHARUB HUKBPGAXGL DAGMAJ WJAY." | tr 'PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ' '[a-z]'
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I tested the aforementioned and it works the same as the cat mysys.txt output.
Btw, I tested the example on bash and sh using a Solaris 8 box.
Thank you for your comment.
Cyrnfr qba'g hfr guvf sbe nalguvat vzcbegnag
+13
I´m using discryptor.net to encrypt my data. It is userfriendly and really fast.
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