AZBY-Shiftwords: Edify, Story

Abstract

The cipher (or athbash, under which name Web3 defines it) is a Hebrew substitution cipher which replaces the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet (aleph, 1\) by the last (tav, ) the second (beth, J) by the last but one (shin, IJI), and so on, unti I we get to the last (ta , n), which i replaced by the first (aleph, 1\). Jan Anderson described it in Fledge Ledge Edge (WW 8. 1997229). Naturally, the idea can be applied to our alphabet; following the precedent set by atbash I name it the azby cipher.