From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-02-24T01:40:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> writes:

> Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > How about "pretty" and "pretty unreadable"?
>> > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/124391
>> 
>> Don't tell me you can't read base64! :P
>> 
>> (It may be unreadable, but it isn't really obfuscated...)
>> 
>> > I'm still impressed by that one (obviously)
>> 
>> Well, thank you.
>
> I agree, you did some really clever work, including a generator
> script, but in the end it's base64 and the resulting Ruby code is very
> readable.
>
> I've seen people going around with a simple base64 encode/decode Ruby
> line in their .signatures.  It's just not impressive, people!  :-)

How about:

puts [926381,23200231779,1299022,1045307475].map{|n|
n.to_s(?$).send n%9==0&&:to_s||:capitalize}.join(" ")<<","

My favorite stays:

s=",GreEkcaSh BODybuILDER ALBreChtAMMOonIa tSUNEMATsuJ";
puts lambda{|f|h=lambda{|h|lambda{|x|f[h[h]][x]}};h[h]}[
lambda{|f|lambda do|h|h[0]?f[h[1..-1]]<<h[0]:[];end}][s.
delete(*%w{A-Z ^JR})].#See King James text of the bible:
pack("c*")## "Y do ye not understand my speech?", John 8

> Cheers,
> Navin.
>

srand 52019;puts"Azzp!bljqkmw!Xrfy!nmgaiq!".
unpack(%q(c*)).map{|x|x^rand(16)}.pack('c*')
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