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Re:History of Alice and Bob on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @07:13PM (#38777530)
Obligatory link to MC++ song "Alice and Bob" from the 2005 album Algorhythms:

https://youtu.be/NHrugBhQfvA?si=fSwl_dupZe5VPzhf&t=407

Here's an video of RMS talking about the period referenced in that man page regarding the introduction of passwords on user accounts:

https://youtu.be/k0RYQVkQmWU?t=235

Re:Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:35AM (#36862868)
For me it brings memory of DOS applications TheDraw and ACiD Draw from the 90's BBS era. Magical times.
Re:Circumventing Deep Packet Inspection with Socat and Rot13 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:27AM (#30487732)
You'r right, the rot13 command is a shell wrapper around: ` exec /usr/bin/caesar 13 "$@" ` Forcing the key to be 13. You can obviously invoke /usr/bin/caesar with any of the 25 keys.
Re:Circumventing Deep Packet Inspection with Socat and Rot13 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:11AM (#30487621)
The use of rot13 was just an amusement in this case given its vintage. Replacing rot13 with any other simple stdin/stdout transcoder should be simple to do via the socat invocation, eg base64, a sed replace command, gzip/gunzip, even an actual symmetric encryption protocol like AES, etc.