Re: [Fun With Perl] One of those fancy .sig files

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 01:01 PM 07/06/99 -0700, Vicki Brown wrote:
>One of the more common ways to have "fun with Perl" is the 
>obfuscation of the signature file. I had been trying _very_ hard to 
>simply ignore Russ Allbery's version :-) :-) when a co-worker chanced 
>upon it and forwarded it to me.
>
># At 12:53 -0800 2/12/99, my co-worker wrote:
># > I'm not going to actually try to figure this out, but, um:
># >
># >
># > #!/usr/bin/perl -- Russ Allbery, Just Another Perl Hacker
># > $^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<[~||<Juukn{=,<S~|}<Jwx}qn{<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD
gD,
># >  00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.),
01,pnn,y{
># > rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/
#y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print

Reverse engineering it is one thing... the part I don't understand is how
to get into the kind of twisted frame of mind necessary to create the thing
in the first place :-)

Actually, I really would like to know how people dream up these things.
What were they thinking of at the time?

Peter Scott


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