
Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org> writes:
At 05:14 PM 1/27/98 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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