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<node id="534515" title="Subliminal Japh" created="2006-03-04 14:51:43" updated="2006-03-04 09:51:43">
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obfuscated</type>
<author id="465654">
liverpole</author>
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&lt;code&gt;
#!/usr/bin/perl

$|++;

sub v {
	(!($,-=(1-$|*2))or$,&gt;42)and$|--;$_="@_";
	s.\W..g?$..=$_.$  ":(print$"  x$,.$..$/) &amp;&amp;&amp; v
}

v"This~program~contains~more~than~one~message~~See~i~~__f~you~can~locate~all"
^"rNOUXPTIGRGK^CIHRGIHUXKITE^THGHXINEXKESUGGEXXuCEXOXXyyFX_OUXEAHXJIEARCXGJL";
v"~of~them~~The~message~you~are~reading~at~this~very~moment~is~already~one~o"
^"^OFXRHCK^^rNEXKESUGGEX_OU^ARCXREGBIHA^ARXTNOS^PCRYXKOMEHR^IUXAJTEADYXINEXI";
v"f~them~~So~VER_~_Y~good~~~That~is~one~message~you~have~__~___found~~I_f~yo"
^"F^TNCMXXsOXperyXyy^GOIB^^^tHGRXOUXOHCXMCUSGAE^_IU^NGVE^yyXyyyFISHB^^oyF^_I";
v"u~ru~n~the ~progr_am~ you~will~find~yet~another~message~~And~I~would~bet~a"
^"U^RS4NXRHEUXPROGT,GM^T_OU^WIJJ^FOHDX_ERXGNIRHETXMEUUAGEXXaNBXiXQOULDXDCR^A";
v"nyone~could~have~~_figured~that~out~~for~themselves~~But~what~is~the~third"
^"H_OHC^EIULBXHGPE^XyFIASRED^TNGT^ISTXXFOTXTNCMSCJVEUX^bURXWHGR^OU^THEXRHOTD";
v"~message~I~wonder~~Well~for~t_hat~y ou~will~h ave~t!o~inspec=t~!the~#progr"
^"^KCUSAGCXoXWONBCTX^wEJJ^FOR^R&gt;HARXYNIU^QOLLXNOGVE^RUO^IHUPEEUTXDRNC^QVROAT";
v"am~a~different~way~which~I~will~leave~up~to~you~to~figure~out~~I~will~give"
^"AM^A^DIFFERENT^WAY^WHICH^i^WILL^LEAVE^UP^TO^YOU^TO^FIGURE^OUT^^i^WILL^GIVE";
v"~you~one~clue~however~~Think~about~how~what~you~would~do~i~_~_f~you~wanted"
^"^_ISXINEXEJSC^NIQCPERXXtHINK^GDOURXHOQXQNAT^_ISXWOSJD^BI^OXyXyFX_ISXWANTED";
v"~#to~unra=vel~a~pa_rt*icularly~tricky~ob~~fuscation~~Perhaps~one~far~more~"
^"^sRO^SHRGXVEL^GXPA-TTFOCULARL_XTROEK_XOBXXFSUCAROOHX^vCRHGVS^ONCXFATXMORE^";
v"sophisticated~than~this~but~still~containing~a~bunch~of~complicated~Perl~t"
^"SIVHIURIEGRCD^RNGHXTHOU^BUT^SROJJXEOHRGOHONAXA^BUNENXIF^CIKVJICGREDXvERL^T";
v"ricks~and~methods~of~deception!~well~bey_on=d~the~i magin+ation~o#~f~all~b"
^"ROEMUXANBXMETHIBUXOF^BCCEPTIOHI^WCJLXDEY&gt;IN^B^THE^OKKGGINNGTIONXIQXF^ALL^B";
v"ut~the~most~master~ful~of~Perl~wi~~zards~~So~put~on~your~thinking~cap~as~I"
^"URXTHE^MIUT^MAURETXFUJXOF^pERJXWIXXZGTDSXXsIXPURXOHXYISR^RNINKIHA^EGP^AS^i";
v"~am~confident~you~will~discover~the~third~message~~~GOOD~LUCK~~~liverpole~"
^"^GK^CONFOBCHR^_IU^QOLJXBOUCOVCT^TNC^RNIRBXMEUUGAE^XXgoib^jsemX^XJIVCTPOLE^";
v
&lt;/code&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update:&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;changed &lt;i&gt;$|^=1&lt;/i&gt; to &lt;i&gt;$|--&lt;/i&gt;, as per [jdalbec]'s good suggestion below, and changed the first &lt;i&gt;$| = 1&lt;/i&gt; to &lt;i&gt;$|++&lt;/i&gt; for balance.
&lt;div class="pmsig"&gt;&lt;div class="pmsig-465654"&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;font size="1"&gt;@ARGV=split//,"/:L";
map{print substr crypt($_,ord pop),2,3}qw"PerlyouC READPIPE provides"&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</field>
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