Re: Arm the gnus

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:56:03 -0400


Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>:
> Sigh. I wanted to avoid a potential flamewar. I didn't see anything in
> Eric's message that was supposed to be funny. It looked to me that he
> was being quite serious. It seems rather unlikely Eric was being
> anything but serious.

Mr. Gooch, does the phrase "ha-ha, only serious" mean anything to you?

-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

The following is a Python RSA implementation. According to the US Government posting these four lines makes me an international arms trafficker! Join me in civil disobedience; add these lines of code to your .sig block to help get this stupid and unconstitutional law changed. ============================================================================ from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce( lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))

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