JeeperMTJ's CC Geocoin Jan 06
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Owner:
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JeeperMTJ
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Released:
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
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Origin:
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Germany
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Recently Spotted:
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In Geocaching-Stammtisch Fall 2004
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September 2005 Coin - ROT 13
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ROT-13 is a Caesar Cipher where the English alphabet is "rotated' on itself with a shift of 13 characters (half the length). This means that your decoder wheel (or geocoin in this case) is set so that A on the outside = N on the inside. Because it's been rotated 13 characters N in the outside = A on the inside. Pretty cool, huh? While this is very simple, it obscures hints, punchlines and spoilers just enough that you need to make an effort to read it as regular words, unless you've been conditioned to recognize words like gerr, ybt, pnpur, uvag, ab, Jnubbb!, and fbzrgvzrf.
Most of the text on the ROT-13 Geocoin is obscured in ROT-13. We didn't think it would be fair to do that to the Tracking Numbers or the activation codes, though - so those are still just plain text.
Here are some links for you to learn more about ROT-13.
Wikipedia's Definition of ROT-13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot13
The Jargon File's Definition http://ursine.ca/Rot13
LEETKey A Mozilla Extension that, amoung othe things, does ROT-13 translation. http://leetkey.mozdev.org/
ROT13.com A site to convert ROT13. http://rot13.com/
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