E N C R Y P T I N G   M E S S A G E S

    GoldED allows you to en/decrypt messages encoded with the ROT13
    crypting method. ROT13 is very simple: It just swaps the letters
    "A-M", "a-m" with "N-Z", "n-z" and vice-versa.

    ROT13 is mostly used in UUCP networks, where it is used as a
    "spoiler warning", so that game solutions, jokes and other stuff
    is not read by accident. In those networks, all message readers
    have ROT13 de/crypting capabilites.

    In FidoNet, not many message readers have ROT13 capabiblity, and
    the current policy (Policy 4) states:

        2.1.4  Encryption and Review of Mail

        FidoNet is an amateur system. Our technology is such that the
        privacy of messages cannot be guaranteed. As a sysop, you have
        the right to review traffic flowing through your system, if
        for no other reason than to ensure that the system is not
        being used for illegal or commercial purposes. Encryption
        obviously makes this review impossible. Therefore, encrypted
        and/or commercial traffic that is routed without the express
        permission of all the links in the delivery system constitutes
        annoying behavior.

    You should not use the crypting facility of GoldED, unless your
    network allows it, and *never* in international echos.