No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
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HN comment orderI 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…
Seriously, this is the smartest, most interesting, and oddly the most accurate movie I've ever watched about computer and network security. And it was hugely entertaining, compelling and exciting! This movie introduced a lot of people to cryptography, tiger teams and ethical cracking/hacking. Also, it had Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd and River Phoenix. One of my all time favourite movies.
See also unscramble() and scrambledWriter() effects for JavaScript: http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/jquery-grab-bag/...
Not my repo. This is modeled after the decrypting scene in the movie Sneakers. [1a][1b] Seems appropriate to link given the interest in Cool Retro Term. [2] [1a] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bAa6gFvLs [video][3 mins] [1b] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coDtzN6bXAM [video][3 mins] [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036895
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-29 | No more secrets 1992: A tool set to recreate decrypting text effect | dikiaap | 9 | 3 |
| 2016-05-03 | Recreate the famous “decrypting text” effect as seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers | porsupah | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-05-06 | Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers”First breakout | rfreytag | 216 | 54 |
| 2017-09-05 | CLI command to simulate “Sneakers” encryption | mikeflynn | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-08-28 | No More Secrets | GordonS | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-07-20 | No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie SneakersHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | tambourine_man | 1002 | 257 |
| 2025-11-24 | Linux Command Line: No More Secrets | Bender | 5 | 1 |
| 2026-03-17 | No More Secrets – A command line tool that recreates the effect seen in Sneakers | sogen | 2 | 0 |