No More Secrets

This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers. For reference, you can see this effect at 0:35 in this youtube video.

This command works on piped data. Pipe any ASCII or UTF-8 text to nms, and it will apply the effect to it, initially showing "encrypted" data, then starting a decryption sequence to reveal the original plaintext data.

Also included in this project is a program called sneakers that recreates what we see in the above movie clip. Note that this program requires the user to select one of the menu options before it terminates.

This project has no dependencies, but it does rely on ANSI/VT100 escape sequences to recreate the effect. Most modern terminal programs support these sequences so this should not be an issue for most users. If yours does not, you may need to use an alternate terminal program like xTerm.

Table of Contents

1. Download and Install
2. Usage
3. License

Download and Install

I am flattered that few *NIX platforms have added this project to their package manager collection. If you're using one of the following systems, you can install it from the package manager.

• openSUSE
• Homebrew (Mac OS X, see http://brew.sh/)
• FreeBSD

If your system is not on the list, you can easily install this project from source. You will need to have git, gcc, and make installed to download and build it. Install them from your package manager if they are not available.

To check if you have them installed:

$ which make
/usr/bin/make

$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc

$ which git
/usr/bin/git

Once those are installed, follow these instructions to download and install nms.

git clone https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets.git
cd ./no-more-secrets
make
sudo make install

Uninstall:

$ sudo make uninstall

Usage

nms works on piped data. All ASCII and UTF-8 character sets should be supported.

After the initial "encrypted" characters are displayed, nms will wait for the user to press a key before it starts the decryption sequence.

ls -l / | nms
ls -l / | nms -a           // Set auto-decrypt flag
ls -l / | nms -f green     // Set foreground color to green

Command Line Options

-a

This option sets the auto-decrypt flag. This will automatically start the decryption sequence without a key press.

-f color

This option sets the foreground color of the decrypted text to the color specified. Valid options are white, yellow, black, magenta, blue, green, or red. This is blue by default.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE for more details.