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typo in tattoo (Re: ULotD? Cuban Tattoos.)
Alan Olsen <[email protected]> writes:
> At 05:14 PM 1/27/98 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>
> >From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> >The story posted is an urban legend.
> >
> >It is NOT an urban legend that someone has been tattooed with "RSA in
> >Perl". A picture of Richard White's tattoo is at:
> >
> >http:/www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/tattoo.html
>
> It is also true that he had a typo in the tattoo. It seems someone, who
> will remain unnamed, joked about "what if it has a typo, is it still a
> violation of ITAR?". Seems they decided to proof read it. "Doh!"
There was a typo in the tattoo, fortunately it was correctable, they
missed out a backtick (`). You can see this on the tattoo gif
referenced above:
it says ...$_=echo "16... and it should say ...$_=`echo "16...
I pointed this out to Richard White when he sent me the gif of his
tattoo, and he had his wife put in the backtick, as there is a
reasonable amount of space between the = and e of echo.
If anyone wants to repeat the exercise, the perl/dc program is smaller
now:
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
Adam