come on bro...

++ them shits

one of my favorites: if(myBooleanVariable == true)

meh, dem's the littles.

I can easily imagine scenarios where it makes some form of sense.

@AbeMiessler Hahaha, yup.

like maybe it started off as $index = $index + 7;, then it was modified in place to only 1...

@AbeMiessler worse, is when they call a method to test the boolean's value.

If that's the case then $index += 7;

@Simon meh.

and again, maybe it wasnt $index to start with. Regardless, that is like arguing about tabs vs. spaces.

it's formatting.

nothing else.

TABS

Don't be a noob.

Proper formatting makes it less awful to read someone's code.

poor noob

he doesn't know any better

lolol

Let's talk about how @AviD has tigger for his picture

what's up with that, right?

I know, I was kind of confused by that when I was new here.

@Simon of course.

I think it's some form of pedobear but I'm still unsure.

@AbeMiessler you havent met me.

My investigation is not complete yet.

are you some sort of child prodigy @Avid?

pedobear!

@Simon are you claiming to be less confused now??

doubtful

Yeah, that'd be a mistake to claim that.

@AbeMiessler yes, except for the child part. not any more. I used to be.

are you a lady? That would also excuse the tigger picture

@AbeMiessler huh??

Since when does "tiger" take 2 g's?

have you ever watched pooh movies?

who me?

@Simon let's go back to confused.

poo movies... hehehe

is confused

I'll admit I've watched a few

Do you have kids @AbeMiessler?

yes

Nice.

Yeah, it's awsome

Do they like the dog?

my second is due on the 4th

@AbeMiessler so you get it.

@AbeMiessler Awesome!

@AbeMiessler youre getting another dog?

yeah, dog is my daughters best friend

It's great to grown up with animals.

haha, @AviD, second CHILD due on the 4th

@Simon, yes it is!

@AbeMiessler oh! Congrats!!

all kids should have a dog

Enjoy!

thank you!

@AviD How old is your newborn now?

@AbeMiessler or a younger brother/sister.

in b4 I'm like "shit, time flew by"

@Simon 'bout 5 months.

JESUS CHRIST.

I knew it.

Time did fly by.

tell me about it.

@AbeMiessler you'll appreciate this:

how old is the big sister?

This is odd

Darn hats.

This isn't TF2

It is.

You know, even the master of grumpiness @Iszi likes 'em.

Just sayin'.

messing with hats...

testing to see if that last one checks for open/closed questions :-)

that's how ready for sleep I am

night all

n8

@AviD, HA! That's awesome

I have experience 100% of that

stepping on the block barefoot is the worst tho

My daughter now is 20 months

so not a huge gap

(reposted from another chatroom)

What on earth?

@AbeMiessler lego was created by the devil.

ha!

l'home time

I'm hungry as nobs.

ttyl

@ScottPack I'm guessing a very high headwind, perhaps artificially induced.

@Iszi That was my best guess.

@Iszi one hypothesis is that the gif is reversed

I am now Rainbow Dash the reviewer

@Gilles I think you're the only person with Oh The Horror

you should use that for a bit until it's less unique

@kalina I am using it

hmmm

it's practically invisible with my avatar

I only use hats that I've earned on a site, so I only use that one on SO

oh I see

that would be why it hasn't updated on the winterbash site

like last year, the difficulty will be to find hats to wear on sites other than Unix & Linux

without cheating, of course

well, built in functionality means it's not cheating

but yeah I get what you mean

@Gilles Meaning the plane was blown back and up by an errant gust of wind? Or the business end of a turbine.

For anyone that's interested,

amazon.com/Celestron-21024-FirstScope-Telescope/dp/…

According to @TildalWave and @RoryA it won't do anything fancy, but at $35 it's a steal.

german is a weird language

Would many of you do me the kind favour of clicking this link? <3

I really will love you long time

well, until sometime later today anyway

@kalina @Simon just needs 2 minutes.

I... what?

he doesnt need a long time.

rude only by implication.

Watch my hat cause havoc

...

....

Dammit avid posted two messages

That's right.

I did.

manish

@kalina Referrer links don't work from SE domains

tell me the secrets of the hidden badges

@ManishEarth I'm after the 500 views hat

referrals are just a side effect

I dunno .. I just got it

dammit

I will trade you information on how to get the pony hat for your secrets

IG 88 is a Star Wars bounty hunter though

@kalina I posted a bounty yesterday on an old question

hmmm

did the question have no answers on it?

I also posted an answer on a question that had an active bounty. The only answer to be posted after the bounty started

interesting

@kalina It had answers

@ManishEarth both on meta?

well I got my unicorn horn by getting many upvoted comments on mso

@AviD MSO yes

@kalina Oh!

Now I get it

I also suspect that Eureka is mso related

but haven't worked out why

or how

me too

@kalina whoa. an actual unicorn horn? thats awesome!

how come you didnt put that on your pony??

couldn't make it fit properly

awwww

@kalina resize your gravatar

went through a bunch of different gravatars

then got bored and went with the swim

because it fits my current avatar perfectly

boring!

and ponies can't swim!

@kalina Does it have to be many upvoted comments or some humongously-upvoted comments?

I think it's the same requirements as the peanut one

5x2

failing that, it's one really highly upvoted one

based on the upvotes I got

I have 5 comments upvoted

one of them is ~20

the other four are 2-4

@kalina If you help me get it I'll help you get the peanut one on a site of your choice :)

ILLEGAL SOLICITING OF UPVOT_-- ok

I need a site where you've posted comments in the past two days though. I can API the rest

@kalina api.stackexchange.com/docs/…

I don't actually post comments... like ever

sup bronies

Hmm, only one of my comments is below threshhold meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/211834/…

The rest are either 0 or 3

@kalina you have exactly 2 on arqade

I have comments on arqade?

@kalina exactly two

give a bunch of comment upvotes

I think it only counts for ones posted during WB

interesting

when I say give, I meant gave

I gave too :P

thanks

right so I need to make three more comments

do you know if the close vote boilerplates count as a comment?

@kalina hmm, interesting. I think so

If you want to, upvotes on stackoverflow.com/questions/20607817/… / stackoverflow.com/questions/20609611/… too :)

whores.

done

@AviD hey, hats are awesome

thanks :D

SO is the site to be on for hat farming

Now, to conquer the WORLD

I feel like I'm playing with a handicap doing this on Arqade

@kalina heh yeah. I don't spend much time there answering though

I had to wait for the entire day to get a single reopen vote in

I see questions, and my first instinct is to flag

@kalina and for fat harming.

I waited >20 hours to get my flags approved

@kalina You could have used /tools

@kalina Aside from comment flags, that's true for SO too

@ManishEarth Arqade is the cleanest SE site

we have 0 outstanding EVERYTHINGs

and we don't reopen stuff, stuff that gets closed gets deleted very quickly

and this question I've got going on for the 42 hat, isn't getting enough traffic to make it to 500

Yay, I got the hats! And they fit so nicely!

lol

Of course, except for the fact that my head doesn't have a ....head

you've definitely won this year

@kalina I won't be around for 5 days starting day after tomorrow. Plenty of time to catch up

it's hardly a case of catch up, you've already got most of the standard hats

@kalina Yeah, but I can't go for secret hats I don't know about

true enough but I'm not a hoarder of knowledge :p

so I will share info on those

@kalina But I won't be around to know about them :P

pff if you're only gone for a few days there's still plenty of time to get them when you get back

you will miss out on a few chat hats though

@kalina those I may be able to get.

Phone internet :D

yeah

just say something really silly and perverted

@kalina That works for you :P

I normally just drop into chat and say "penis" or "I'm naked"

Yes, but you're kalina

If I say penis they'll look at me funny

@ManishEarth don't worry, we look at you funny anyway

Then again, when I first came to this room, they starred me for saying the same

and pinned

@kalina "kalina"

OK, that was way after I had started coming here, but first star I think

saying "penis" has got me starred, pinned, flagged, banned, kicked

@kalina poor Bridge star board

it's like the full spectrum of chat emotion

@ManishEarth FAE is the most naked

she's an avid naked gamer

what is "more naked"

@kalina what do I have to do with this??

oh

@AviD lol

insists the only reason she ever puts on clothes is because it's not acceptable to walk around outside naked

@AviD -.-

@kalina I like her already.

its ok, we're talking about ponies and drugs in the bridge atm

gtg, cya folks

have fun

@kalina on stackoverflow custom flags sometimes take 3 weeks.

What is this chat room about?

@DanijelJ it's for chatting

@DavidFreitag That's your real name, right? (I wanna send the package tracked. I don't want it to get lost)

@DanijelJ Primarily to talk about non-piercing-related topics

Sweet as.

Some claim it's about security, but that's a filthy lie.

@DanijelJ Thank you. I often get complimented on my as

Then on that note, the Hats, the Winter Hats program. Are they only issued if you earn any of the specs for the duration of the hat program?

@DanijelJ It seems that they started the calculations on December 5th. I've earned a hat for an action I performed on that day.

However, I believe if all of the calculations started on December 5th, I should have received more hats.

It's a bit confusing.

and oh Jesus Christ! What happened to your eyes, @kalina?

I think only the "did something on 5.12. hat" considers those actions

@CodesInChaos Indeed. It seems to be that.

and of course the old hat

That happened

@Adnan what he said

A local bus company in Finland had a promotion today. You can travel anywhere in Finland for free if you bake your own ticket. Just bake something 'Christmasy' and decorate it and write the name of your destination.

Nice gesture

@Adnan who gets to eat it? the bus driver?

@AviD Probably. All I know is that we got our free ticketzzz!

@Adnan did you bake anything "special" into those cookies...?

@AviD I don't think anybody actually baked the cookies. Everybody I know just bought them from the store, screwed something up with them to make them look homemade, and frosted the destination on them.

hehe, that sucks

I'm trying to solve a puzzle

I've got a base64 encoded string

When I decode it, I get Salted__20...[junk]

What am I looking at?

don't help him

@boo can you give the original base64 encoded data?

he's trying to cheat at a game

@boo Probably a base64 encoded hash of some sort.

Sorry, @boo, but it doesn't seem like you're helping yourself. We need more info to help you.

DON'T HELP HIM

U2FsdGVkX18yMLwr6K3OxZrCLbKMDPi+9uQ8dYkgXNia/sQF/I1dNUX9NmWBCtcYVVpbdPABMZQOuCX‌​zE8OVqKPQw/29sjPTZfrCKxSK11p5XWDWBAVn9DP3nAlscBlLhWfQvnFrsMSuhNouWTvX7Kl2jzjXrQZE‌​wS739HAC6nHxbDL3QAJcJBHZXo4RWQ66KlsZnsKipqHvyCkWXTZJ4QZ+nofK93eDp/5KfDfagdze+pQ78‌​VAOlvFaPM4MIG0ymi9olEmhGTXD7UV4oRBCiZE46tykTjjlYkllk0AcgRYtyGjbMN89CTQmQe2alN1fGX‌​JM62v1TAjgabx3RiLjWuMxjHbpJXYF22iiQjSZ36Y=

@kalina Shhhh

@boo Don't worry, we don't care for her opinions.

@kalina I'm not cheating because there are no rules!

@Adnan sssh

I'm expecting it to be some kind of reversible encryption

@kalina @Adnan is actually more likely to help him now, to spite you.

@AviD Glad to see it's not just the Bridge that runs on spite

yknow, to show you as if he doesnt care. Like pulling your pigtails at recess next to the swings.

@boo no, its a salted hash. Irreversible.

it's good, I have the downvote privilege on infosec

or clueless.

@boo If you're trying to modify certain values in a game, this is more often the case. I've seen a large number of games use reversible encryption with the key stored in the binary of the game itself.

@AviD What hashing algo?

I will demonstrate my lack of care by downvoting ALL OF THE POSTS

@Adnan It's not that kind of game

@boo no clue, but if it is "salted", that applies to a hash, not encryption.

@AviD So, because it says "Salted_" then it's a salted hash. Yup, makes sense

It's a private game that I can't say much about, but if I solve it with your help I'll let you know

@boo What do you mean it's not that kind of a game?

I didn't specify a kind of a game.

@Adnan heuristically, yes. I am not motivated enough to dig past that point.

@Adnan I can't explain until the game is over, for reasons

Yup, with this shitty attitude, no help from me. Sorry, buddy.

it means he's trying to win and is trying to exploit you into helping

@boo how long is the binary data? (decoded)

@Adnan see, you should have just listened to me

@Adnan I'm happy to provide any further details

@boo does it involve magick?

(UTF-8)

@AviD No

@boo shortcut it for me. How many bytes?

@AviD 168, including Salted__

@boo JUST the decoded binary data...

@AviD Decoded how?

Sorry

@AviD Ha? You no make sense

Ooh, I don't think it's plain old base64 decoded

@boo B64....

@KevinvanderVelden What do you mean?

It has "+9" in it

I think it's multiple pieces of base64 encoded data

if it is a hash, then you can a lot about the algorithm by its length....

@KevinvanderVelden Why? + and / are valid Base64 chars

@AviD I'm aware

Huh? oh well then nevermind ignore me

I have another Base64 encoded string which I'm pretty sure is the key

Aw hell

Fine

You guys can play the game, but let me know if you solve it

I'm not going to solve this by myself anyway

meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/211709/revisions

Markdown

The prize is hat

potentially

Ok ok ok I'm onto something

major victory?

<salutes>

@kalina You did it?

I feel like I'm so close

TWSS

wait, what do you mean? Why would that surprise you so much?

No I haven't done it, I'm waiting for you to do it so I can ride along on your success for free

@AviD You must be very bored. :P

also, I asked a question, not made a statement

@kalina is that what that squiggly mark at the end means?

Decryption:
decode encrypted text from base64
remove "Salted__"+salt from encrypted text
hash password+salt three times with MD5 to generate key and iv
decrypt with AES-CBC mode of operation
remove padding
decode plaintext from UTF-8

But I can't get it to work

@AviD you so funny

@AviD ...

If you haven't clicked on this link yet please be kind and click it

because... hats

again??

YET

IF YOU HAVEN'T CLICKED IT YET

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY CLICKED IT THEN NO, NOT AGAIN

unless you're clicking from another IP address

in which case, yes, click it again

ah, see, I parsed it left-commutative.

so (If you haven't clicked on this link yet please be kind) and (click it)

'sup

I need to start playing Payday 2 again

you play payday 2?

@boo same, I'm getting a bad decrypt from openssl :(

@KevinvanderVelden Me too

@kalina yea

I have a level 58 account I think

I got to 100 and then rerolled

and league of legends

and then literally immediately got bored of the game

and didn't play it again

@DavidFreitag I'll go ahead and assume it is.

@boo I have not followed the discussion, but data beginning with "Salted__" is typical of the symmetric encryption format used by OpenSSL. It means that the data is symmetrically encrypted with a key and IV derived from a password.

@ThomasPornin Yes I got that much

The key derivation is specific to OpenSSL (non-standard).

If you get a decryption error, then either you botched the length at some point (there is a 16-byte header and then it is CBC, so it should have a length which is a multiple of the block cipher block size) or you use the wrong password or wrong algorithm, in which case the decryption engine does not find the expected padding structure after decrypting.