{"id":8881,"date":"2022-04-17T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2022-04-22T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T20:40:02","slug":"8881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8881","title":{"rendered":"Using Excel To Decrypt ROT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anya has made us a scavenger hunt complete with clues &#8212; clues that are encrypted! While working out a ROT-1 or ROT-2 decryption isn&#8217;t terribly difficult, it was getting a little time consuming [especially when what was advertised as ROT-1 was actually ROT-(25) and I had to do it all over again!], so I made a quick spreadsheet to decrypt strings. The letter pairs are in the first two columns, then VLOOKUP is used to convert the printed character to the actual one. I found a trick card!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=8882\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8882\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ExcelRotDecoding.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ExcelRotDecoding.png 544w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ExcelRotDecoding-296x300.png 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anya has made us a scavenger hunt complete with clues &#8212; clues that are encrypted! While working out a ROT-1 or ROT-2 decryption isn&#8217;t terribly difficult, it was getting a little time consuming [especially when what was advertised as ROT-1 was actually ROT-(25) and I had to do it all over again!], so I made &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3,1594,1595,1596,1597],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-anya","tag-decryption","tag-encryption","tag-rot","tag-rot-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}