I've been tinkering with Python all day today... it's pretty slick. Just for practice, I tried to cobble together a tripcode decoder that would let you have "real" words in your tripcode as !WAHa and Sling and others do, and it actually came out better than I thought it would be. I'm aware there's already a program that does this, but if memory serves me, it's Windows-only and in Japanese besides. My script is kind of dumb in the way it goes about things -- it basically just tears through random strings until it finds one that fits -- but I've tested it repeatedly and it seems to work. If you'd like to check it out, nab it here:
http://www.anre.org/crap/detripper.bz2
Of course, you may need to modify the hashbang line depending on where Python is on your machine, and don't forget those execute bits, people... Use "-h" for help.
First person to ask how to get this to run on Windows gets pointed and laughed at.
If you just want to read the code without downloading and unpacking the file...
http://www.anre.org/crap/detripper
thanks!
What you live or die by when doing this is the speed of your crypt() implementation. The default ones are often horribly slow. If you're only doing 4000 crypts per second, you'll have to wait a long time for those codes. Tripper+ uses the UFC crypt() implementation, and it pushes about 64000 crypts per second per gigahertz on an Athlon processor. I've used some assembly-optimized crypt() code from John the Ripper to get up to 110000 crypts per second per gigahertz.
I don't know how hard it is to interface those from Python, though. I see there's a Perl wrapper for the UFC code, so maybe somebody made one for Python, too.
>>4: Hmm... Can't seem to find anything that ties Py and UFC together. I'll keep looking into it, although, to tell the truth, I don't care that much. :P Again, this was just coding practice.
>hunter.apana.org.au/~cjb/Code/4tripper.c
...gives a syntax error when I try to compile it, both on Darwin and Ubuntu (Debian). Don't know enough about C to try to fix it...
Man, this thread got hit hard by 100webspace's strange hiccups today.
>First person to ask how to get this to run on Windows gets pointed and laughed at.
lol cygwin wins it
but i think i'll stick to using my perl script since it's much faster (my perl script found 4 tripcodes matching 'abc' in about 2 seconds, while your python script took about 11 seconds to find one and then about 26 seconds to find another one... and about 107 seconds for the third one...
Are you using the UFC wrapper for that?
>>16
i wasn't, but then i saw your post and decided to try it... now it works much faster...
http://hotaru.freelinuxhost.com/wu/src/trip.bz2 (with ufc wrapper)
http://hotaru.freelinuxhost.com/wu/src/trip.noufc.bz2 (without ufc wrapper)
Last login: Wed Nov 17 23:34:30 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Twelve:~ Albright$ bunzip2 /Users/Albright/Desktop/trip.bz2
bunzip2: /Users/Albright/Desktop/trip.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.
Twelve:~ Albright$
By the way, again, I'm not trying to attest my script is anything near teh fast, but could you get faster results with it if you ran it with the Windows port of Python natively instead of using Cygwin?
Cygwin is just a POSIX implementation for Windows, so it doesn't really give any significant performance hit.