Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers”

Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by ryhanson on Friday May 06, 2016 @01:06PM (#11645246)

For the people who want to try this on OS X run `locate ncurses.h` to see if you have the ncurses library. If you have Xcode installed, you should have it in a few places. Then update the Makefile, set `NCURSES_H = {dir}` and it should make and install just fine.

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by cweiss on Friday May 06, 2016 @05:51PM (#11646953)

brew install no-more-secrets

Works.

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by ryhanson on Saturday May 07, 2016 @12:03PM (#11650078)

Sweet, thanks! I'm not sure why I didn't think to try that. Worked for me!

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by secfirstmd on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:16PM (#11646092)

Maybe added that to their github?

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by kazinator on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:17PM (#11646095)

This could be done with a single VT100 escape: print multi-line junk, move the cursor back, print less junky junk, repeat.

(Even with some optimization: for any line that is not changing any more, just emit a CR-LF).

You don't even need to put the TTY into raw mode; no termios calls needed, and \n is your CR-LF.

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by _pius on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:46PM (#11646286)

If you have a better implementation, ship it. Don't trash someone else's work from the sidelines.

edit: OP removed the snark from the comment.

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by kazinator on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:39PM (#11646576)

Specifically, I removed the text "Seriously?"

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by kazinator on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:52PM (#11646322)

Oooh, good one! Do I have your permission to use it in the code review I'm going into in 30 minutes?

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Re:Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the ... by webkike on Friday May 06, 2016 @04:25PM (#11646492)

If you were releasing your tool to the reviewer free of charge, absolutely.

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