No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers

https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets

1002 246 3 years ago

mydriasis• 3 years ago

DUDE that is so cool. I love the "line feed" and "scrambling" effect. Wow!

jb19912• 3 years ago

It actually works, too. We've been using this in production for two months and it requires little downtime or ongoing maintenance.

kenrose• 3 years ago

I have to ask: how are you using this in prod?

Angostura• 3 years ago

He could tell you, but then he would have to kill you.

archgoon• 3 years ago

He works for Setec Astronomy.

playingalong• 3 years ago

Maybe they meant movie production.

stavros2• 3 years ago

Clearly, they lost their encryption keys.

hnlmorg• 3 years ago

Not the OP but it’s a good way of encrypting your shell.

ClassyJacket• 3 years ago

To decrypt stuff. Duh.

francisofascii• 3 years ago

HOLY COW! What the hell is this?

- Whistler.

nobleach• 3 years ago

So crazy that at the news of Kevin Mitnick's passing, I immediately started thinking of this movie. Probably a lot of folks did. Thanks for sharing this.

wasabinator• 3 years ago

This is really great. Love the movie.

tracker1• 3 years ago

Same, neat little effect. Thinking it could be fun to use this in conjunction with like a BBS ascii based door or something.

henriquez• 3 years ago

So neat. I just hacked into the FBI!

sandyarmstrong• 3 years ago

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. The decryption scene is so iconic in my memory. You absolutely NAILED it!

Thank you for this lovely surprise.

lvncelot• 3 years ago

This together with cool-retro-term[1] is an absolute must on my machines for real hacker hours.

[1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

VikingCoder6• 3 years ago

Classic!

azubinski2• 3 years ago

This is for the lonely boring nights...

kraquepype• 3 years ago

Wow that amber screen brings back memories, thank you for sharing. My first helpdesk job included mainframe support, and I got to use one of the old IBM quad screen plasma terminals they still had there. Our ticketing system was still on the mainframe so it was actually useful in my helpdesk duties.

(Pretty sure it was this one, or very similar: https://www.argecy.com/ibm-3290-plasma-terminal)

VikingCoder6• 3 years ago

I installed cool-retro-term and no-more-secrets on my Chromebook with Linux, and it does indeed look nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRIG_zK4SQ

koalacola• 3 years ago

It says I need Qt5 LTS to install that, is that a paid application?

Ziggy_Zaggy• 3 years ago

if you like that one then you'll likely enjoy this[1] one also

[1] https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix

reustle• 3 years ago

Note that you can easily install on a Mac with

brew install --cask cool-retro-term

VikingCoder6• 3 years ago

Awesome!

Are there other movie graphics available too?

I've seen plenty of Matrix screen savers.

I've seen some things like Global Thermonuclear War from War Games.

What other movie effects exist?

uptown• 3 years ago

“It’s a UNIX system! I know this!”

dylan6047• 3 years ago

I love the download and install section's lack of assumptions that someone looking to install this specific package doesn't already have gcc/git/make avaialbe. "Hi, I'm a brand new *nix user on a fresh install of my distro, and I want to install a command to recreate the Sneakers decryption effect" says no one, ever. =)

So many packages make these kinds of assumptions. I tend to find that in those situations, the likelihood of some other salient bit of information gets left out as well. Also bonus for not being an npm install type of something.

ghusto• 3 years ago

npm install type of something

THIS! I was a little disheartened when I saw I had to build it, but the repo is tiny, and the build is a second. This should be the norm, not a pleasant surprise!

Cthulhu_2• 3 years ago

But also, on the other hand, I'd like software to be easy to install, so it being included in package distributions is convenient. That said, being able to run from source without dependencies would be cool as well; that's probably why some tools are still built in pure shell code.

bamfly• 3 years ago

I hate this in documentation. Snippets of code or config that don't work on their own, and it may not even be clear where they're supposed to go or what they're nested in. May use imports the name of which cannot be found on the page. That kind of crap.

Please, at the very least, put a full-fat example or a link to it at the bottom of the page. Something.

phatskat• 3 years ago

The amount of “put this in your config file” for things they are part of build chains for JS without specifying where that file lives. Oh, the word “config” is a link to the configuration docs page but…that just lists the possible config options and not where they live.

HeckFeck2• 3 years ago

Too many hours have been lost battering make and searching for lib-$THING in apt, just going from the names of the missing .h files.

kwk1• 3 years ago

One should use `apt-file search foo.h` for this (apt-file is a separate utility from apt and requires installation)

Gigachad• 3 years ago

C/++ programs are atrocious for this. On any other language you just run "___ install" and it grabs everything you need to make it run. While C devs expect you to first spend an hour searching for the packages they are too lazy to list. Which all have different names on each distro, and probably at least one of them doesn't have the version needed.

anta403• 3 years ago

Seems like the author simply assume those who want to build his code already have ncurses installed. Thus, only a Makekefile provided. No configure, scons script etc etc.

It would be nice if the author states explicitely what the dependencies are so you don't have to spend hours installing the libraries. Yep I get it

bravetraveler2• 3 years ago

Needlessly wasted, because each person doing that could publish it as a spec and save everyone else the effort.

They are relatively easily converted between formats (ie: deb/rpm)... once any is made. Personally, I appreciate that this is generally available in distributions.

This is the entire purpose behind Linux distributions. Package up and distribute the software.

I don't begrudge anyone plugging away at development, but using the source as the distribution model drives me mad.

sixothree• 3 years ago

"The rest is left as an exercise for the reader".

I 100% agree with the frustration. Anything that involves make as described by a repo such is this is not something I want in any of our processes. It's going to fail.

But this is really a toy and not meant to be taken seriously.

bravetraveler2• 3 years ago

While I too wish for complete build instructions as a packager, I feel this is overstated.

The very first part of the 'Download and Install' section says to check the distribution package manager so that building isn't necessary

These users are better served not even knowing about builds. In this spirit, the bit saying 'if you aren't absolute latest, adopt the build from source pain' should be removed.

Toys like this don't demand the latest and greatest. Save the [complete] build instructions, including the libraries (ideally their package names), for developers/contributors

cube00• 3 years ago

Cootys Rat Semen

aidenn02• 3 years ago

I'm interested in all kinds of astronomy.

acheron• 3 years ago

I want peace on earth and goodwill towards men.

joshstrange2• 3 years ago

I cannot hear the word "Passport" without saying (at least in my mind) "My voice is my passport".

sumtechguy• 3 years ago

For me it is 'cattle'... 'cattle mutilations are up'

pengaru• 3 years ago

Have you ever seen an Akroyd interview. like in a podcast format? He wasn't even acting in that role.

myself2483• 3 years ago

"Give him he-- Give him help."

dylan6047• 3 years ago

I just love to hear someone say the word passport

joshstrange2• 3 years ago

Every few times I hear passport I also have to go watch that clip because I find it so funny.

Winse• 3 years ago

"...verify me" that wasn't easy, what I just did.

HeckFeck2• 3 years ago

Is it bad that PASSPORT.MID began playing in my head? It has been so many years and I still remember it note for note. Maybe I need therapy.

renewiltord• 3 years ago

HSBC has voice recognition on their call center and they announce it by saying "Your voice is your passport" or maybe "password". I forget now.

etblg• 3 years ago

Verizon still has you say "at verizon, my voice is my password" for their voice authentication over the phone.

Not a fan, I disabled it right away.

Minor49er• 3 years ago

Bell used to actually have this feature which The Phone Losers of America exploited. The hack was directly inspired by the movie. PLA showcased this in one of their podcast episodes

https://phonelosers.com/2008/05/pla-radio-episode-17-voice-a...

nycdotnet• 3 years ago

needs to be said as a question. Passport?

nocoiner2• 3 years ago

Verify. Me?

iancmceachern6• 3 years ago

Verify me!

diyftw• 3 years ago

This takes me back to my BBS days. ANSI animations were all the rage. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the software I used, but in the mid 90s I created numerous ANSI animations that looked very much like the movie.

myself2483• 3 years ago

Likely TheDraw!

VikingCoder6• 3 years ago

Ooh, I lack the time to play with this, but I think someone could compile the lib to WebAssembly and tie it in to https://xtermjs.org/

Then you could have a web page with static DOM elements that do this effect!

dylan6047• 3 years ago

but I think someone could...

let's try that again, but I think you should... the beauty of open

VikingCoder6• 3 years ago

Should no one on HN share their ideas? Must they implement them all themselves to satisfy you? Do you think you're improving HN by discouraging people from sharing ideas they don't have the time to implement?

rezmason• 3 years ago

Not only cool looking, but good code and attention to detail!

mikae1• 3 years ago

I need a JavaScript version of this!

Anthony-G• 3 years ago

Very cool. It’s easy to build the project from source and I appreciate the uninstall target in the Makefile (not all projects include this).

bmmayer1• 3 years ago

Obligatory two idiots, one keyboard link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

junon• 3 years ago

The thing about NCIS is that they had these sorts of jokes coming with actual technical background. This wasn't just a thing some writers thought people wouldn't notice, I'm pretty convinced NCIS did this on purpose.

The "I looked at the source code and 1 out of every 337 payments went to <name>", or the "The printer is coded using assembly" while HTML is shown (two opposite ends of the spectrum) really convinced me that the tech was supposed to be so obviously fake to tech people that it allowed them to still be entertained by it.

Compare this to CSI:Cyber which wasn't taking the piss out of IT and simply made stupid, ridiculous things up ("cyber nuke") or Numb3rs which described IRC as "two boats passing in the ocean communicating through the ripples of the water" or "thankfully I speak leet".

NCIS seemed to actually try to either get things right, or make them purposefully outlandish. I respect the writers for that.

unbalancedevh• 3 years ago

I think they could have improved the effect if they'd had Gibbs start moving the mouse around and clicking when he first stepped up.

_nub3• 3 years ago

Thanks for the title. Went right up into my alltimefaves.

INTPenis• 3 years ago

I'll forever be piping gpg -d into this tool.

wood_spirit• 3 years ago

Hey, has anyone used an llm to “enhance” the output of terminal programs and make them a little bit more hackerish or Tolkien or something? So we have a shell for mundane work that makes you feel like you’re hacking or exploring or whatever? :)

nailer• 3 years ago

I really want a modern version of Sneakers where someone works out that a quantum computer has probably been built (maybe years ago) and they have to steal it if it exists.

Totally fits in with the original Sneakers "no more secrets" meme.

xtracto3• 3 years ago

Yes!! Why dont they do reboots , sequels, prequels , or even shitquels of the films I loved as a kid?

nocoiner2• 3 years ago

I personally could have been on board with a remake with the original cast (though the original was already about aging and maturity, so I don’t think the passage of yet another generation would have been all that compelling of a story), but RIP River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier (had to check and see if Ben Kingsley was still alive, though).

I actually think the original holds up shockingly well, for a movie that is at least tangentially about technology. It in part got lucky that it was juuuuust pre-WWW and that critical systems running on mainframes is still a thing in 2023.

jvanderbot4• 3 years ago

Wait, you're telling me I can just download these 3-5 source files, type `make`, and it will _just build_?

No:

* Setting up an isolated build env

* Pulling 1600 dependencies and building them from source

* installing a filesystem layer with 1600 .so libraries

* running docker, npm, etc?

_AND_ it compiles in a fraction of a second?

Amazing what this new language C can do.

xtracto3• 3 years ago

Aah this brought me back memories! Waaaaay back in the day (90's) I would implement my own methods I stead of say including stdlib.h or other libraries because I had the (wrong) idea that including it would bloat my C programs (didn't know how a like worked uh?) .

12 year old me would choke seeing NPM, pip, or bundle these days... or Electron!

We could do so much with so little!

dheera2• 3 years ago

I've always loved programs that didn't even need "make". The ideal build and install experience should be:

    $ gcc foo.c; cp a.out ~/bin/foo
    $ foo

Now that is a REALLY good build experience.

kstrauser2• 3 years ago

I helped interview a front end developer who bragged about and insisted on hand-writing every bit of JavaScript so that we’d have the leanest possible website.

He did not make it past me.

Not that we don’t care about those things, but we have better uses for our time and money than implementing an in-house version of React. Also, our other engineers would probably have strangled him.

anyfoo4• 3 years ago

Oh god, fun related memory. When I was 10 or 11 or so, I programmed in Turbo C on my PC. At some point, I messed up some pointers that I passed to strcpy(), so young, smart me decided that "string.h must be broken" (I actually also thought it contains the actual definitions), and moved the file away so that I don't accidentally used it.

Yeah sure, that's what must be broken. Not my code.

A while later I got smarter, and progressed enough to hook into DOS interrupt handlers with my C code and some assembly glue code. I decided to make a program that would click the PC speaker every time the hard drive is accessed (not a new idea, but a good exercise), by hooking into INT 13h (in DOS/x86 in general, sw interrupts were basically used as system calls).

To my delight, it worked, and it suddenly seemed like I had a very loud hard drive. But DOS would also spit out strange I/O errors when trying to list the current directory.

Huh, weird, I wonder if the same happens in the root directory? So, "cd \", followed by "dir", and, yep, I/O error.

Okay, let's reboot and... doesn't boot?

It dawned on me pretty much immediately what must have happened: I didn't restore all registers correctly before calling the old hard drive sw interrupt handler (again, system call in modern parlance). It must have been unlucky enough to convert some reads into writes. And by trying the same thing on the root directory, I probably converted some reads to the sectors making up that root directory into destructive writes... oops.

echelon• 3 years ago

Amazing what this new language C can do.

One well-maintained C project in isolation. I've also seen nightmares that are difficult to build on certain platforms or require undocumented build dependencies. Let's not forget how horrible the automake/Cmake/Scons/etc. ecosystem can be.

Everything is awful when there's no attention to the dev experience.

fsociety• 3 years ago

Just wait until you add a bunch of dependencies. Then you get to discover the nasty parts.

twic• 3 years ago

Wait, you're telling me I can just download these 3-5 source files, type `make`, and it will _just build_?

No. You need make and a C toolchain installed.

If you have those installed, you almost certainly also have Python, Perl, and possibly even a reasonably recent Java (not on MacOS, yes on most Linux distros, i think) installed, and all of those are also capable of doing this with zero dependencies.

croes• 3 years ago

I think parent wrote that because nowadays many projects are for JavaScript or Python with lots of dependencies.

asveikau• 3 years ago

When I set up a Linux system, it only installs what I ask it. Perl and python are popular enough that they'll probably get pulled in by stuff I want to use, including things like the distro's package manager. But Java? No way.

the_gipsy4• 3 years ago

Same for every language: if the env is installed and the program has no dependencies, just run build command.

This one needs some unspecified versions of gcc, make, and ncurses installed.

jvanderbot4• 3 years ago

Minimizing dependencies is a lost art, is mostly what I'm saying.

j1elo3• 3 years ago

To be honest, I must admit to believe that whoever else did this same tool with JavaScript, no doubt would have used a package.json that needed to download at least a couple hundreds of dependencies.

sophacles5• 3 years ago

And unless a person is using linux with the right tools installed, they have to go download an entire OS, get it set up, install all the right libraries and then, maybe (if they did it right) they can type make and pretend to "not have to install a whole bunch of dependencies".

stavros2• 3 years ago

From personal experience, the number of times that I've typed `make` and it worked are so few, that now I basically think "cool, but there's no way I can compile that" and close the tab whenever I see a C project.

This project built fine, though.

theandrewbailey• 3 years ago

Agreed. 90+% of the times that I've wanted to compile something, I couldn't. I suspect that it was mostly because of missing or outdated dependencies. The only things that I can reliably compile are image encoders.

uwagar• 3 years ago

if ud like to ride a rollercoaster try this:

http://plusplus.free.fr/rollercoaster/

philsnow• 3 years ago

Don't forget the bad-old-days of `sudo make install`.

I'll note that this project does come with an `uninstall` Makefile target, but not a lot of projects do/did.

nsxwolf• 3 years ago

I expected to have bad luck on my Mac, but I ran:

git clone https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets.git

cd no-more-secrets

make

./bin/nms

It worked!

omniglottal• 3 years ago

I just did the same on Android in Termux. Clone, make, and it "just works".

varispeed• 3 years ago

Amazing what this new language C can do.

To be fair it's a very old language, but what's crazy is that decades later engineer still have not come up with a way to execute the C directly, but have to rely on a process called "compilation". I mean how hard is it to make a CPU that understands C? /s

charcircuit• 3 years ago

decades later engineer still have not come up with a way to execute the C directly

The dynamic C listener from symbolics C could do this decades ago.

Name_Chawps• 3 years ago

Crazy how few dependencies a toy console program needs.

I wonder how minimal a giant web app written in C would be? Would it still compile in a fraction of a second?

jvanderbot4• 3 years ago

I've deployed microservices in C! It's a PITA. Not to build, but to get the microservice to accept C. It builds real fast. Then zip, and `aws lambda blah blah` works fine.

marcus0x62• 3 years ago

It would compile quickly -- on a relative basis -- it would just take 2 - 10x longer to write than something in a language more suited to web development...

And probably also contain a bunch of RCE vulnerabilities.

netfortius• 3 years ago

Where is the API GW cluster load balancer?

theamk2• 3 years ago

Once you have gcc installed, yes it just works. It's only 184MB and 2153 files (tested on random VM).

Python is actually smaller, 82MB and 1461 files, and has a much better stdlib.

If you never wrote zero-dependency python scripts, give it a try! It's a very nice experience: download file / clone repo, run a file and that's it. Not even a build step.

sgarland• 3 years ago

This (and learning stdlib better) is precisely why on a Python project of mine, the only external dependency is a C shared library to run some parts faster than Python can (making giant arrays of ints and shuffling them). I bundle precompiled libraries for the architectures I have available, so you don’t have to make if you don’t want to.

anthk4• 3 years ago

check tcc

pixelbath• 3 years ago

And the repo doesn't ask you to pipe curl output directly into the shell? Neat!

speedgoose2• 3 years ago

Yes it’s very different. You download source code and execute it. Compared to downloading source code and executing it.

andai• 3 years ago

It's funny, C++ projects either have the best or the worst setup experience.

Took me hours to get Audacity building on Windows. Actually, I might have given up and installed Linux instead, and built it there. That's usually way easier!

But the other day I built an old MP3 encoder (BladeEnc) in a split second. It brought a tear to my eye. That's with Visual Studio 6. Which somehow builds an entire project before the new VS even begins compiling!

lsh123• 3 years ago

This is a property of Windows C++, not other C++'s :) :) :)

tempodox• 3 years ago

Even more incredible is that the project readme actually explains everything and you don't have to be a member of some cult to get the secret knowledge that makes everything klick.

lxe• 3 years ago

shakes head in windows

make: The term 'make' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

msla• 3 years ago

The supported Windows version is WSL.

Everything else is weirdo legacy crap.

benguild• 3 years ago

don’t worry, someone will port it to JS

jonmasters2• 3 years ago

But it would probably be better as a containerized microservice with 100 RPC endpoints. Just think how flexible this would be. Even better, 1000 containerized microservices with failover and autoscaling.

chaxor• 3 years ago

Don't advertise these languages, else they will become like the wretched python is now.

Python used to be fantastic. It actually used to just work. That stopped once everyone caught on to the language, Nvidia got involved, and tensorflow / pytorch /ML ruined everything with so many script kiddies writing nonsense that had no interest in making their packages compatible with anything. The community is the best, but also very very much the worst part of the language.

anyfoo4• 3 years ago

I doubt C needs much advertising nowadays...

wruza2• 3 years ago

It already happened with autotools, bsd ports, cmakelist list lists and static-y linked apps like “snaps” and its analogs.

C is not special in this regard. Special part is an OS itself that takes the role of a single system-wide virtualenv or node_modules/.. with all common trouble packaged in.

Python and others didn’t create this trouble, they ejected it from your system into a single rm-able folder.

anyfoo4• 3 years ago

My favorite example of this is `xneko`, which is a cute cat that chases your mouse pointer.

It's a C program running under UNIX/X11 that was last updated in 1993. Last I tried, it still compiled with absolutely minimal changes (I think I had to change an #include directive or something) after typing `xmkmf; make` (which was the way to compile X11 programs at the time), and runs, on macOS. Provided you have Xquartz installed.

NoZebra120vClip• 3 years ago

Wayland should put the kibosh on that. How long until macOS has to migrate?

galkk• 3 years ago

I am not talking about terminal support or something like that, but I actually find this example quite telling too, but from totally different perspective.

An effect that I could write in high school using Pascal and that would require only builtin library and few loops, in proposed source code requires so much *stuff*. Given that this is a fun demo and not something that one needs to maintain as enterprise software, I totally would accept such trade off and remove dust of something simpler.

Oh, memories.

   Using Crt;

   GotoXY();

Gordonjcp• 3 years ago

Well, it still seems to be sitting up top, so I had to pick on this comment when I made a demo of the proggy:

https://youtu.be/jDwy8Js4FiU

lmm• 3 years ago

It'll also silently send all your credit card information to the mafia if you compile it with the wrong version of GCC.

How do you know which is the wrong version of GCC? That's the neat part, you don't.

anta403• 3 years ago

First, make assumes a C compiler is already installed. Example on Debian: do apt-get install build-essential

Second: usually docker, npm, etc are not needed. If the code use 3rd party C libraries, you need to install it. On Debian, again you can use `apt` to make life easier.

worksonmine• 3 years ago

It would be safer if written in rust, especially since it deals with something as important as encryption.

/s in case anyone is confused.

rcme• 3 years ago

How come the `ls` output is colorized? I thought that ls normally checked isatty before colorizing output.

Toreno96• 3 years ago

Maybe they aliased `ls` to `ls --color=auto` or `ls --color=always`.

dylan6047• 3 years ago

hey! get out of my .alias file! next, you'll be giving away the ultimate secret with ..=cd .., ...=cd../.. ;-)

Flatcircle• 3 years ago

One of my favorite films

starkparker• 3 years ago

Blog post (2016): https://medium.com/@bartobri/the-movie-based-terminal-effect... (the comments are more interesting than the post)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11584535

LinuxBender• 3 years ago

Like the cool retro terminal it appears this is also in VoidLinux. Any other distros also have this?

    xbps-query -Rs no-more-sec
    [-] no-more-secrets-1.0.1_1 Recreate the famous decryption scene from Sneakers

javajosh• 3 years ago

I wonder if there is an encryption scheme that could be visualized to look like that.

housebear• 3 years ago

One of my favorite movies of all time.

geekifier2• 3 years ago

Is there any reason this would not work on a Mac and iterm2? I get the initial encryption effect, but sadly, no decryption :). I tried different fonts and iterm2 settings to no avail. I guess I could try the ncurses option, but curious to see this not work natively.

Edit: as helpful comments below me explained, you either have to press another key to decrypt, or launch it with the `-a` option.

adammarples• 3 years ago

You gotta press enter again lol

bluedino• 3 years ago

Did you forget the `-a` option on the nms command? Works for me on a Mac with iTerm2

geekifier2• 3 years ago

Indeed I did, thanks!

ant6n• 3 years ago

Macs are more secure.

jh00ker• 3 years ago

Who here clicked the YouTube link at the top of the README.md file and DIDN'T watch it all the way through? I admire your resolve!

i-use-nixos-btw• 3 years ago

This is it. This is the pinnacle of terminal experience. It’s all downhill from here.

Perhaps this is the time to quit and become a farmer, so I don’t have to witness the decline.

red-iron-pine• 3 years ago

great way to spook the normies at the coffee shop

msmith• 3 years ago

This is great. It reminds me that I tried to recreate this effect with Turbo Pascal back in the 90’s when I first got into programming.

Sneakers, Wargames, and BBS culture were pretty influential for me at the time.

gumby• 3 years ago

I wish programs included stuff like this in their demo modes. Beeps with keypresses, animations, and the like.

Back when there were trade shows this would have been great on the show floor (fun to look at and give the salesperson more time to talk). Beeps on keypresses, noises while computing, and of course cool graphics like this.

That stuff would be super annoying when actually using the software for real. Perhaps it could be enabled in the free version and suppressed when you bought the license.

tptacek• 3 years ago

True fact: there's a subset of real cryptanalysis attacks --- the CBC padding oracle, Bleichenbacher's RSA padding oracle, the ECB byte-at-a-time attack --- that (I think?) Juliano Rizzo coined the term "Hollywood Attack" for, because when you run the exploits for them, they look like decryption in Sneakers.

It's a good term, everybody should use it, it's even a little useful for getting the intuition behind the attack (a lot of cryptanalytic attacks work by finding creative ways to isolate a single byte of ciphertext instead of having to work against the entire 128 or 2048 bit message).

owlbynight• 3 years ago

Cool, thanks for this welcomed break from work today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7CXt1zXDU

jrflowers• 3 years ago

Seatec Astronomy was an anagram for Too Many Secrets, not No More Secrets.

cpuguy832• 3 years ago

But the machine makes it so there are no more secrets.

mindcrime• 3 years ago

But the machine doesn't work... ;-)

rconti• 3 years ago

SETEC Astronomy, actually. And "No more secrets" was what Coz said to Marty about the decryption machine.

wmichelin• 3 years ago

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ homebrew pls

S33V• 3 years ago

looks like it's there: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/no-more-secrets#default

iancmceachern6• 3 years ago

I absolutely love this movie. I grew up watching it on VHS and coincidentally bike by the setting of one of its major scenes daily. There is that brick courtyard that currently sits between Google and Wharton. In the movie its a outdoor dining area, and Sidney Poitier says, holding the car phone in Martin's Karman Ghia, "Martin, It's your mother". And then they realize they're not with the NSA. Anyway, they've added a floating firehouse there now, and the road looks a bit different, but I love how similar the view is there now as to when the movie was filmed.

I really do love this movie, it's really well done all around.

janee• 3 years ago

Made me think of cool retro term, which I haven't checked out in I want to say 10 years...lo and behold someone already applied this to the green version haha

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070715-16...

See https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

jtwaleson• 3 years ago

Always fun :) Years ago I wrote a similar single file python script “decrypt.py” which does roughly the same thing. Sadly it’s still my most popular GitHub project: https://github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt

azubinski2• 3 years ago

Because the web is getting more and more boring... If you embed this toy in any terminal browser so that every opened page is "decrypted", you get something very very funny :)

jonmasters2• 3 years ago

The best movie of all time

danhon• 3 years ago

For added verisimilitude, when using

   sneakers

you could also trigger playback of the appropriate track ("Too Many Secrets") from James Horner's soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KOuCe2-fj8

vorticalbox• 3 years ago

Is there a way I can make zsh just pipe everything into this so every command I run has this effect?

ubermonkey• 3 years ago

I have a soft spot for that film. Great cast, good script, and a surprisingly reasonable take on encryption -- even for today, let alone for 30+ years ago.

vunderba• 3 years ago

I love stuff like this. I actually recreated the basic program that Sean Astin's character used to "hack" the exits access code in an episode of Stranger Things a while back using the modern port QB64.

https://specular-realms.com/2021/04/21/strangest-things

atentaten• 3 years ago

Makes me wonder how the original effect was accomplished in the film.

nojvek• 3 years ago

Love it!

I'm the author of https://github.com/nojvek/matrix-rain

I should cook up a piped command mode. This is v neat.

iancmceachern6• 3 years ago

"The key meeting took place on July the 3rd, 1958, when the Air Force brought the space visitor to the White House for an interview with President Eisenhower. And Ike said, "hey look, give us your technology, we'll give you all the cow lips you want."

koromak• 3 years ago

I want to have an idea this fun and useless. I'm always so charmed by things like this.

ezequiel-garzon• 3 years ago

Why is it necessary to use sudo to install this?

throwawaymobule• 3 years ago

It puts the resulting file into /usr/local/bin. You can run it without sudo if you already can write there for some reason.

Or, define $DESTDIR if I'm reading the makefile correctly.

No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers

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