From: Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@...>
Date: 2007-01-08T09:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: mini-contest: try to crack this snippet ("Happy 2007!" Ruby challenge)

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:00:21PM +0900, vasudevram wrote:
> Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> > http://eigenclass.org/rubychallenge2007
> >
> > Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the secret message
> > hidden in a Ruby script, follow the instructions to generate the code that
> > will prove you've found the message, and report it via eigenclass.org (more
> > details at the above address).
> 
> Nice one :-)
> 
> I guess I must have a built-in Ruby interpreter in my brain. I didn't
> even need to read the code, let alone write any, to get the solution
> :-)

Impressive! I myself can hardly decode base64 in my mind, let alone
zlib-decompress it or ... :)

I can see lots of "GET /rubychallenge2007/Happy2007 HTTP/1.1" and similar in
the logs, but AFAICT only 9 people have cracked the code out of 206 so far. 
10 including you ;)

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Mauricio Fernandez  -   http://eigenclass.org   -  singular Ruby