Self Criticism

There are a few things I like about this obfu. But in general, there are a lot of things that bug me. The first being that it could have been a lot better.

Let's start with the phrase "WillIHackSomethingNew". It seemed appropriate when I started, since I was kinda curious if I could. Plus I needed a sentence exactly that length. It doesn't exactly roll of the tongue. And I feel that this statement has no relationship to the rest of the composition. I like to have the process of the code resemble the output or the code itself. Like this obfu.

I like the way I presented the content of @@. I wanted the source of my output (j.a.p.h.) to be obvious, while obfuscating the process for extracting the data.

But the process is where I really have my issues. The control structures are way obvious. Especially the if statements. I basically do the exact same thing 4 times in a row. And there is nothing special about the while statements. The only thing that obfuscates these are things like using strange scalars (i.e. $:%$%==1) and embedding the control structures into one continious block of code.

sub _ is right out!

I am happy with two things with this block of code. It is almost completely solid, using only one unnecessary ' ' and ony unnecessary ';'. And I had fun with the first two lines:

;$;=$/=(1==21);$==$-=2;$=*=
$==++$=;$.='';$$=$-;;while(
[download]

I like the overall idea. I'm sure I will make a second attempt sometime soon.

jake

Comment on Self Criticism Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Self Criticism by jake (Pilgrim) on Sep 21, 2002 at 17:09 UTC
I'm much happier with this than the original. `{$~="WillIHackSomethingNew" ;@@= ( ' u sj ' , ' ' , ' t ' , ' ' , ' e r a n ' , ' ' , 'p err e ho t' , ' k c ' , ' l ' , ' ' , ' h a ' ) ;$;=!1;$==$-=2;$==$==++$=; $$=$-;$}=$--1;$%=$$$-;$\|=! 0;$x=' '}while($~=~/(.)/g){ ;print$x x$-.substr($@[$;], $=,$\|);$:=ord($1); if($:%$% ==($%==$-)\|\|$}==$:%$%){$;+= $-($}-$:%$%);$=+=$-$:%$%; }$=-=$:%$%($:%$%==-$}+$%); $;-=++$:%$%($$+$\|==$:%$%)}` [download] I guess I was a tad rusty. :)	[reply] [d/l]

Replies are listed 'Best First'.

Re: Self Criticism
by jake (Pilgrim) on Sep 21, 2002 at 17:09 UTC

{$~="WillIHackSomethingNew"
;@@=                    (  
   '      u sj   '       , 
   '             '        ,
   '        t    '      ,  
   '             '       , 
   '   e r  a n  '        ,
   '             '      ,  
   'p err e  ho t'       , 
   '   k  c      '        ,
   '    l        '      ,  
   '             '       , 
   '    h a      '        )
;$;=!1;$==$-=2;$=*=$==++$=;
$$=$-;$}=$--1;$%=$$*$-;$|=!
0;$x=' '}while($~=~/(.)/g){
;print$x x$-.substr($@[$;],
$=,$|);$:=ord($1); if($:%$%
==($%==$-)||$}==$:%$%){$;+=
$-*($}-$:%$%);$=+=$-*$:%$%;
}$=-=$:%$%*($:%$%==-$}+$%);
$;-=++$:%$%*($$+$|==$:%$%)}
[download]

[reply]
[d/l]