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Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler

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Re: Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler

#11
Seems cute. Might be a fun gadget to host on a Pi or whatnot.

> Hand-written in x86_64 assembly language

Oh.

Not sure if cross-internet capable communication tools constitutes the "worst" example of hand written assembly, exactly, but... yeah, it has to be up there. I'm sure it was fun to hack, though.

Re: Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler

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post #11

Seems cute. Might be a fun gadget to host on a Pi or whatnot. > Hand-written in x86_64 assembly language Oh. Not sure if cross-internet capable communication tools constitutes the "worst" example of hand written assembly, exactly, but... yeah, it has to be up there. I'm sure it was fun to hack, though.

The only thing really worse there is that the number of people who could audit the code is much smaller. That guy wrote a whole SSL library in assember, so he probably didn't just finish some assembler tutorial and decided this was a good first lil project.

Assember is usually just considered bad/dangerous by people who have no clue about it and consider it something magical. It's not. At least not significantly more dangerous than C, which is still the language the most fundamental components of everyday computing are based on.

Re: Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler

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Well I think I was banned from the server 2ton.com.au. Not sure why but it was fun while it lasted. sshtalk is a pretty cool utility!

This whole conversation was getting a little out of hand, maybe the admin banned all users in the room?

LOL eigenmachter here. Pouring one out for john2 and his gf

Re: Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This whole conversation was getting a little out of hand, maybe the admin banned all users in the room?

LOL eigenmachter here. Pouring one out for john2 and his gf

I leave for 10 minutes to get lunch, and everything blows up? Too bad. This makes me want to host my own instance now.

EDIT: Don't think it was banning, I can't hit the server from anywhere now.

EDIT2: Why not. Give this a shot:

    ssh human.org.in -p 4001
Meet in the room "test".

Re: Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL eigenmachter here. Pouring one out for john2 and his gf

I leave for 10 minutes to get lunch, and everything blows up? Too bad. This makes me want to host my own instance now. EDIT: Don't think it was banning, I can't hit the server from anywhere now. EDIT2: Why not. Give this a shot: ssh human.org.in -p 4001 Meet in the room "test".

If you make one, post it here! I'll join
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