On Friday 10 October 2008 03:49:32 pm Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Ben Caplan
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It might be less clear to someone who knows what the encrypted
> > text *really* says:
> >
> > Russians SHALL NOT eat cake.
> >
> > In a timely fashion after joining, each Russian SHALL reveal the
> > encrypted text to a non-Foreign forum, unless another Russian has
> > already done so.
>
> Not long enough. The uncompressed obligations.txt file is 1006
> bytes. Which means that if Murphy's post is accurate, then the
> password is about 30 characters long if the file uses \n for
> newline, or about half that if it uses \r\n.
Theoretically, it could include random noise as well, like this:
The following text has no effect:
{
ntaeouasnoediracd.u',ntbkhaenhkeaosnehjkr df20394u.hlrhrD .auk oaoeai
RCDNutd ,OARUDrdRDUNAtbTNJUAE rkcduNUJETD eoaua\ suaoedbnoae eona ue
tdeuoa Jntsaoedurcs,eubdoekantdkacdprcdprccabkr8,d.p9l0gp9g ioaiu ar
toenhduatneo antue oaduatne duacdeou nc.do.e urcdp rdhka. d,.pd i',.u
cndueoaird asuoe icdp.aercdaoaeou euo eu oauaeoip'dpy. cddcnsoaeu sns
uesdcraoiesctioaeuntdhaoneudcp'8drp,.rchoaeutnkd nto ksacud oeanhouc.
anotdaoesnd asoeudsrcaprcdhl.9p8idnch;itnparsda scr,r.dhpu'a. ieu eu4
pcrdaoeirsrc doaeu'3dhriupa.-skasncbdkpu rschbpk noaehsrdhrplirsc hia
}
(for some value of "eona ue tdeuoa".)
