Rot

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Rot or rotting may refer to:

  • Decomposition, the process by which organic matter breaks down
  • Rot-proof, a process to protect materials from decomposition

In technology:

  • Bit rot, the gradual electronic decay of storage media and software
  • Disk rot, the physical decay of optical disks such as CDs due to chemical or electrical damage
  • Software rot, a form of bit rot
  • Link rot, in which hyperlinks on web pages become broken over time
  • ROT13, in cryptography, a simple substitution cipher

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