I just made an animated GIF for you: http://d.pr/i/ZMi (3MB)

Hey thanks. On the page you linked to, it said "optimized for mobile" something. I have to say quite impressive--loaded very quickly. Didn't do anything after that, but I'll be damned if that first frame didn't make it down in like 2 seconds.

That's freaking awesome. Thanks!

Quick and dirty screencast http://youtu.be/DoDoOtlomsM

Thanks to you (and your terminal output), I'm now in the middle of reading "Street-Fighting Mathematics". :)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Math...

I like how you think--that name was the thing that stood out to me, too; and you saved me a quick web search =]

Thanks, much better than the gif.

But I'm confused...it de-scrambles what amounts to an ls -la? I gleaned from the op that it de-scrambled an image?

No, the script requires ascii input. If you use jpg2a it will take a JPG and turn it into an ASCII version of the jpg, at that point you can run it through this descrambler.

Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

At any rate, it looks cool but someone should really build a GUI for it.

No, a GUI completely misses the point here and would in any case be much less flexible.

Learn to use the command-line (if you're not on Windows), it's fun! :)

Shoulda added a ";)" I suppose.

But to any of you reading this far, don't let being on windows be a deterrent. There are many excellent run-time distros out there to play around on. Google "run time Linux" for more.

And I wholeheartedly agree; it is quite fun (and rewarding) to learn.

:) Cheers!

I just added this to the readme on github. Thanks!

wget https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/master/decrypt.py; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py

It doesn't bite.

It's also super short, so you can easily glance over the source code to make sure it's not doing anything shady (it's not).

Yes, make sure you inspect it before executing... If someone hijacks my github account, puts on some bad code and you run this, you're screwed.