Re:Illegal Prime Number? (2001)
by snarfy on Sunday January 07, 2018 @07:05AM
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I recall a version that was an ascii string that you could save as a file with a .zip extension and it would unzip into the source.
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I think that's in the steganography wing here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/Stego/index.html
> This gif file contributed by Robert de Bath, contains a surprise inside. Mr. Bath writes: "There are two tiny facts about GIF files and ZIP files you might like to know about: GIF files have their length defined at the start of the file; any bytes after are ignored. ZIP files have a table at the end; anything at the start of the file is ignored. The result is that a file can be both a GIF and a ZIP, just change the extension."
I also like the gallery, which contains a variety of code-golf like discussions of the edge cases of US 1st ammendment protections.
Re:Illegal Prime Number? (2001)
by roman_savchuk on Sunday January 07, 2018 @09:56AM
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And I remember someone was selling t-shirts with that string!
I had the RSA "this shirt is a munition" t-shirt that was technically illegal to take outside of the United States due to export controls.
Though, it wasn't 1/100th as ugly as this block of graffiti spam.