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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`
+
+
+Run the tests with:
+
+```bash
+bats atbash_cipher_test.sh
+```
+
+After the first test(s) pass, continue by commenting out or removing the
+`[[ $BATS_RUN_SKIPPED == true ]] || skip` 
+annotations prepending other tests.
+
+To run all tests, including the ones with `skip` annotations, run:
+
+```bash
+BATS_RUN_SKIPPED=true bats atbash_cipher_test.sh
+```
+
+## Source
+
+Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash)
+
+
+## External utilities
+`Bash` is a language to write "scripts" -- programs that can call
+external tools, such as
+[`sed`](https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/),
+[`awk`](https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/),
+[`date`](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html)
+and even programs written in other programming languages, 
+like [`Python`](https://www.python.org/).
+This track does not restrict the usage of these utilities, and as long
+as your solution is portable between systems and does not require
+installation of third party applications, feel free to use them to solve
+the exercise.
+
+For an extra challenge, if you would like to have a better understanding
+of the language, try to re-implement the solution in pure `Bash`,
+without using any external tools. Note that there are some types of
+problems that bash cannot solve, such as performing floating point
+arithmetic and manipulating dates: for those, you must call out to an
+external tool.
+
+## Submitting Incomplete Solutions
+It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others
+have completed the exercise.