Merge pull request #32 from xexyl/1992-nathan

Fixes in 1992/nathan/README.md

1992/nathan/README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 ## To build:
 
-        make nathan
+        make all
 
 ### To run
 
@@ -17,42 +17,45 @@
 
 ## Judges' comments
 
-    Try:
+Try:
+
 	./nathan obfuscate < nathan.c > foobarf.c
 	./nathan - obfuscate < foobarf.c > barfoof.c
 	diff nathan.c barfoof.c
 
-    WARNING:
+### WARNING:
-	The judges make no claim as to the strength or security
-	of this program.  It is likely to be nil, or the next
-	best thing to it.  Still, you might consider installing
-	it in /usr/games/nathan.  :-)
 
-    NOTE: 
+The judges make no claim as to the strength or security
-	The 'winning' catagory is also open to question.  One could say
+of this program.  It is likely to be nil, or the next
-	that it is a 'file obfuscator'.  One could also say that it
+best thing to it.  Still, you might consider installing
-	unintentionally abused the intent of rule #7 (that programs
+it in /usr/games/nathan.  :-)
-	should be freely redistributable).  We suspect that the author
-	may not have intended to do this, but that is the way things go
-	sometimes.
 
-	BTW, 'abuse of the rules' entries do not violate the rules.
+### NOTE:
-	Entries that violate the rules are disqualified.  Abuse of the
+
-	rules entries are ones that tend to 'stretch' the limits and
+The 'winning' category is also open to question.  One could say
-	take the contest into unexpected territory.
+that it is a 'file obfuscator'.  One could also say that it
+unintentionally abused the intent of rule #7 (that programs
+should be freely re-distributable).  We suspect that the author
+may not have intended to do this, but that is the way things go
+sometimes.
+
+BTW, 'abuse of the rules' entries do not violate the rules.
+Entries that violate the rules are disqualified.  Abuse of the
+rules entries are ones that tend to 'stretch' the limits and
+take the contest into unexpected territory.
 
 
-### Historical notes for this entry from the judges
+### Historical notes from the judges about this entry
 
-    The US International Traffic in Arms Regulations controls certain
+The US International Traffic in Arms Regulations controls certain exportations
-    exportations going out of the United States.  The U.S.  Munitions
+going out of the United States.  The U.S.  Munitions List gives the specific
-    List gives the specific categories of restricted exports.  Because
+categories of restricted exports.  Because this entry at one time appeared to
-    this entry at one time appeared to fall under this restricted catagory, the
+fall under this restricted category, the judges originally were not able to
-    judges originally were not able to distribute winners outside of the USA.
+distribute winners outside of the USA.
+
+Nathan Sidwell stated that he was willing to distribute the winning source.  To
+read HIS instructions of how to obtain his winning program one was able to run:
 
-    Nathan Sidwell stated that he was willing to distribute the
-    winning source.  To read HIS instructions of how to obtain his
-    winning program one was able to run:
 
 	make nathan
 	./nathan
@@ -60,61 +63,64 @@
 
     to learn how to get a copy of the code.
 
+See the 1992/nathan.c file in the
+[../../archive/archive-1992.tar.bz2](archive/archive-1992.tar.bz2) tarball if
+you're interested in this file.
+
 
 ### Personal note from chongo:
 
-    I think the situation showed just how ridiculous US crypto
+I think the situation showed just how ridiculous US crypto regulations really
-    regulations really were/are.  Certain US federal officials can get away
+were/are.  Certain US federal officials can get away with shipping arms to
-    with shipping arms to certain nations in apparent violation of US
+certain nations in apparent violation of US laws, but I personally can't
-    laws, but I personally can't re-distribute a program contest winner
+re-distribute a program contest winner to the network!
-    to the network!
 
 ## Author's comments
 
-    PROGRAM USE
+### PROGRAM USE
 
-    This program is a hello world text encrypter/decrypter. It uses an
+This program is a hello world text encryptor/decryptor. It uses an
-    enigma (I think) style encryption algorithm, where the encryption
+enigma (I think) style encryption algorithm, where the encryption
-    key character is modified by a value, determined from the previous
+key character is modified by a value, determined from the previous
-    character.  Non-printable characters (those with ASCII values < ' '
+character.  Non-printable characters (those with ASCII values < ' '
-    or > 0x7e) are passed unaltered, thus any kind of file may be
+or > 0x7e) are passed unaltered, thus any kind of file may be
-    successfully procesed, but if the original is printable, the
+successfully processed, but if the original is printable, the
-    processed file will be too. The input is read from stdin, and the
+processed file will be too. The input is read from stdin, and the
-    output presented to stdout. The key, a text string, is presented as
+output presented to stdout. The key, a text string, is presented as
-    a command argument. This is optional, and if ommitted, the file is
+a command argument. This is optional, and if omitted, the file is
-    self-{de,en}crypted. To specify decryption, a "-" should be given
+self-{de,en}crypted. To specify decryption, a "-" should be given
-    before the key. (Actually encryption and dycryption proper inverse
+before the key. (Actually encryption and decryption proper inverse
-    operations, so you can use decrypt to scramble and encrypt to
+operations, so you can use decrypt to scramble and encrypt to
-    descramble, if you're perverse.)
+descramble, if you're perverse.)
 
-    PORTABILITY (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing)
+### PORTABILITY (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing)
 
-    It's written in ANSI C, and doesn't even assume an ASCII character
+It's written in ANSI C, and doesn't even assume an ASCII character
-    set, (it has an array of the characters to convert), so should be
+set, (it has an array of the characters to convert), so should be
-    portable across many platforms. It passes gcc -ansi -pedantic -O
+portable across many platforms. It passes gcc -ansi -pedantic -O
-    -Wall with no warnings (You may get assignment in conditional
+-Wall with no warnings (You may get assignment in conditional
-    warnings on other platforms though).  Because I've heard that
+warnings on other platforms though).  Because I've heard that
-    conditional jumps slow down fast processors, I've eliminated all
+conditional jumps slow down fast processors, I've eliminated all
-    the ifs from the code, indeed, as its only one statement, it should
+the ifs from the code, indeed, as its only one statement, it should
-    compile to one instruction an a suitably designed CISC machine. To
+compile to one instruction and a suitably designed CISC machine. To
-    speed compilation, there is only one statement in the loop, so that
+speed compilation, there is only one statement in the loop, so that
-    another scoping level does not need to be opened.
+another scoping level does not need to be opened.
 
-    Being an encrypter/decrypter, you probably want the source code to
+Being an encryptor/decryptor, you probably want the source code to
-    be obfuscated, to hide the algorithm.
+be obfuscated, to hide the algorithm.
 
-    OBFUSCATION
+### OBFUSCATION
 
-    Inspite of the fact that it looks like a nice friendly hello world
+In spite of the fact that it looks like a nice friendly hello world
-    program, it isn't (as documented above). (Short lines have been padded,
+program, it isn't (as documented above). (Short lines have been padded,
-    as you'll find if you look at an encrypted copy of the source.)
+as you'll find if you look at an encrypted copy of the source.)
 
-    I've also named some of the macros from commonly used functions,
+I've also named some of the macros from commonly used functions,
-    just to keep things muddy. Of course, all the variables are
+just to keep things muddy. Of course, all the variables are
-    misnamed. The program is kept simply (one for statement), by
+misnamed. The program is kept simply (one for statement), by
-    serious overuse of , and ? :. These are really confusing when used
+serious overuse of , and ? :. These are really confusing when used
-    together, nested or put in argument lists (is that a comma
+together, nested or put in argument lists (is that a comma
-    operator, or argument separator?)
+operator, or argument separator?)
 
 Copyright (c) 1992, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
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