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# Atbash Cipher
Create an implementation of the atbash cipher, an ancient encryption system created in the Middle East.
The Atbash cipher is a simple substitution cipher that relies on
transposing all the letters in the alphabet such that the resulting
alphabet is backwards. The first letter is replaced with the last
letter, the second with the second-last, and so on.
An Atbash cipher for the Latin alphabet would be as follows:
```text
Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Cipher: zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
```
It is a very weak cipher because it only has one possible key, and it is
a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher. However, this may not have
been an issue in the cipher's time.
Ciphertext is written out in groups of fixed length, the traditional group size
being 5 letters, and punctuation is excluded. This is to make it harder to guess
things based on word boundaries.
## Examples
- Encoding `test` gives `gvhg`
- Decoding `gvhg` gives `test`
- Decoding `gsvjf rxpyi ldmul cqfnk hlevi gsvoz abwlt` gives `thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog`
## Running the tests
1. Go to the root of your PHP exercise directory, which is `<EXERCISM_WORKSPACE>/php`.
To find the Exercism workspace run
% exercism debug | grep Workspace
1. Get [PHPUnit] if you don't have it already.
% wget --no-check-certificate https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
% chmod +x phpunit.phar
2. Execute the tests:
% ./phpunit.phar atbash-cipher/atbash-cipher_test.php
[PHPUnit]: http://phpunit.de
## Source
Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash)
## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.
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