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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: ```plain 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` * * * * For installation and learning resources, refer to the [exercism help page][]. [exercism help page]: http://exercism.io/languages/lfe To run the provided tests, you will need `make`. Open a terminal window and run the following from the exercise directory: ```sh make test ``` You should now be able to see the results of the test suite for the exercise. ## 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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