Usage ===== Nyaruko is a binary to text filter. Given some input on stdin, Nyaruko will produce C code that reproduces this input on stdout: ./nyaruko < original.bin > output.c gcc output.c -o output ./output > regenerated.bin Output is encrypted, but both key and data are included in the output. To separate the key from the data, run these commands: bash output.c > key.c perl output.c > data.c The key-less data.c still compiles, but produces a different message on stdout instead of the original input. This message is a hint to why the code is formatted the way it is. To combine the key and data, concatenate them together in either order: cat key.c data.c > output.c cat data.c key.c > output.c By default, Nyaruko generates a unique random key for every message, using /dev/urandom as the seed. If given an extra command line argument, Nyaruko will seed using that file instead of /dev/urandom: ./nyaruko seed.txt < input.bin > output.c This makes the output key deterministic, allowing the same key to be shared across different files. On operating systems that do not have /dev/urandom, users should always specify this extra seed argument to avoid deterministic keys. Features ======== Implementation details that makes Nyaruko more obfuscated than usual programs: * Nyaruko recycles variables and buffers to reduce internal state. The variable names are also carefully chosen for mixed-case madness. * Nyaruko employs some preprocessor magic to share much of the same code and state between the encoder and decoder, and to increase occurrences of smileys ;) Output code has these features: * Fits nicely under 80 columns, and does not contain any trigraphs. * Uses a fairly efficient encoding scheme, better than base64 for files larger than 20K. * Trivial 3 language polyglot. Code layout is meant to resemble Nyaruko, also known as Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. The most obvious thing to do with chaos is to make a random number generator, and the most obvious thing to do with a random number generator is to make one-time-pads for encryption. Actually Nyaruko implements the ISAAC pseudorandom number generator, which as of 2012 has not been shown to have any bias. Compatibility ============= Nyaruko has these environment dependencies: * Requires ASCII character set. * Assumes sizeof(unsigned int) == 4. * Best viewed with tab stops set to 8 spaces. Output code has the same dependencies, with the additional requirement that the compiler must support string literals of arbitrary length. Nyaruko has been to verified to work with these compiler/OS combinations: * gcc 4.4.5 on Linux (32bit and 64bit) * clang 3.1 on Windows (Cygwin) * gcc 4.5.3 on Windows (Cygwin) * gcc 4.5.3 on Windows (MingW) Note that on MingW, stdin and stdout are not opened in binary mode by default, this means Nyaruko may not faithfully encode files on MingW. Extra files =========== nyaruko.c - The submitted prog.c has spaces compressed to tabs to stay under the 4K limit. This is the original version with tabs expanded. spoiler.html.gz - Contains full recording of how the code went from blank state to an obfuscated program, gzipped to fit under 1MB.