git mv *.hint -> README.md

There is one exception:

    $ find . -name '*.hint' -execdir git mv '{}' README.md \;
    git statufatal: destination exists, source=1992/albert/albert.hint, destination=1992/albert/README.md

Looking at the two files they differ quite a bit so I've not changed it.
I'll bring this up on GitHub.
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Worst Abuse of the Rules:
Nathan Sidwell
Inmos UK
1000 Aztec West
Almondsbury
Bristol
UK BS12 4SQ
Judges' comments:
The US International Traffic in Arms Regulations controls certain
exportations going out of the United States. The U.S. Munitions
List gives the specific categories of restricted exports. Because
this entry appears to fall under this restricted catagory, the
judges may not be able to distribute winners outside of the USA.
Nathan Sidwell has stated that he is willing to distribute the
winning source. To read HIS instructions of how to obtain his
winning program:
make nathan
nathan
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=-=-= The text below assumes that you have the winning source =-=-=
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
To use:
make nathan
Try:
nathan obfuscate < nathan.c > foobarf.c
nathan - obfuscate < foobarf.c > barfoof.c
diff nathan.c barfoof.c
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 'winning' catagory is also open to question. One could say
that it is a 'file obfuscator'. One could also say that it
unintentionally adbused the intent of rule #7 (that programs
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.
Entries that violate the rules are disqualified. Abuse of the
rules entries are ones that tend to 'streach' the limits and
take the contest into unexpected territory.
Personal note from chongo:
I think this situation shows just how ridiculous US crypto
regulations really are. Certain US federal officials can get away
with shipping arms to certain nations in apparent violation of US
laws, but I personally can't re-distribute a program contest winner
to the network!
Selected notes from the author:
PROGRAM USE
This program is a hello world text encrypter/decrypter. It uses an
enigma (I think) style encryption algorithm, where the encryption
key character is modified by a value, determined from the previous
character. Non-printable characters (those with ASCII values < ' '
or > 0x7e) are passed unaltered, thus any kind of file may be
successfully procesed, but if the original is printable, 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
a command argument. This is optional, and if ommitted, the file is
self-{de,en}crypted. To specify decryption, a "-" should be given
before the key. (Actually encryption and dycryption proper inverse
operations, so you can use decrypt to scramble and encrypt to
descramble, if you're perverse.)
PORTABILITY (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing)
Its 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
portable across many platforms. It passes gcc -ansi -pedantic -O
-Wall with no warnings (You may get assignment in conditional
warnings on other platforms though). Because I've heard that
conditional jumps slow down fast processors, I've eliminated all
the ifs from the code, indeed, as its only one statement, it should
compile to one instruction an a suitably designed CISC machine. To
speed compilation, there is only one statement in the loop, so that
another scoping level does not need to be opened.
Being an encrypter/decrypter, you probably want the source code to
be obfuscated, to hide the algorithm.
OBFUSCATION
Inspite of the fact that it looks like a nice friendly hello world
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.)
I've also named some of the macros from commonly used functions,
just to keep things muddy. Of course, all the variables are
misnamed. The program is kept simply (one for statement), by
serious overuse of , and ? :. These are really confusing when used
together, nested or put in argument lists (is that a comma
operator, or argument separator?)
Copyright (c) 1992, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel.
All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is
granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety
and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing
from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.