From 8a1025d63b5ae6d716d1904daec5ff14b8e62473 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cody Boone Ferguson <53008573+xexyl@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 04:59:27 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fixes in 1992/nathan/README.md Restore absent-minded change of make all to make nathan. Fix typos. Fix formatting (the text in the sections is indented which makes it all code blocks). This problem is probably because originally the file was not README.md (though it was still considered markdown). Many other README.md files have this problem which I will fix in time. --- 1992/nathan/README.md | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-) diff --git a/1992/nathan/README.md b/1992/nathan/README.md index d169fe46d..06061293a 100644 --- a/1992/nathan/README.md +++ b/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: - 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. :-) +### WARNING: - 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 abused 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. +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. :-) - 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. +### NOTE: + +The 'winning' category is also open to question. One could say +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 - exportations going out of the United States. The U.S. Munitions - List gives the specific categories of restricted exports. Because - this entry at one time appeared to fall under this restricted catagory, the - judges originally were not able to distribute winners outside of the USA. +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 at one time appeared to +fall under this restricted category, the judges originally were not able to +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 - regulations really were/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! +I think the situation showed just how ridiculous US crypto regulations really +were/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! ## Author's comments - PROGRAM USE +### 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.) +This program is a hello world text encryptor/decryptor. 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 processed, 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 omitted, the file is +self-{de,en}crypted. To specify decryption, a "-" should be given +before the key. (Actually encryption and decryption 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) +### PORTABILITY (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing) - 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 - 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. +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 +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 and 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. +Being an encryptor/decryptor, you probably want the source code to +be obfuscated, to hide the algorithm. - OBFUSCATION +### 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.) +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, +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?) +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