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agree

Obligatory link to MC++ song "Alice and Bob" from the 2005 album Algorhythms: https://youtu.be/NHrugBhQfvA?si=fSwl_dupZe5VPzhf&t=407

Here's an video of RMS talking about the period referenced in that man page regarding the introduction of passwords on user accounts: https://youtu.be/k0RYQVkQmWU?t=235

For me it brings memory of DOS applications TheDraw and ACiD Draw from the 90's BBS era. Magical times.

You'r right, the rot13 command is a shell wrapper around: ` exec /usr/bin/caesar 13 "$@" ` Forcing the key to be 13. You can obviously invoke /usr/bin/caesar with any of the 25 key…

The use of rot13 was just an amusement in this case given its vintage. Replacing rot13 with any other simple stdin/stdout transcoder should be simple to do via the socat invocation…