Downloadable stuff

WARNING:None of this software is packaged for release. Don't bother fetching it unless you like reading and fixing other people's Perl code.

I've discovered that if I put off making a piece of software available for download until I've created a package that's in a state in which someone could fetch it and use it without reading and modifying the source, then I'll be putting it off forever. So I put it here in the hope that (a) it will be useful to those who understand it, and (b) that someone might volunteer to help me create a more generally useful package. Most of it is in Perl and requires Perl 5. Most of it is left uncompressed - it's easier to view online that way, and it's so small it's hardly worth the bother.

With the above warning in mind, please feel free to mail me with any questions or problems with any of this software.

Net related

• gallerific - a Perl script for making photo galleries like these.
• put-homepages - a Perl script that makes maintaining a remote website of static pages vastly more convenient: I've found myself being much more active maintaining my web pages since this script made it so easy. I'm sufficiently proud of this to have written more about it in lieu of real documentation. This very handy and robust tool is in constant development - if you'd like to help me turn it into something I can release, get in touch.
• ppp-connect - dials your ISP and runs a bunch of services when you connect, drops the connection when it goes idle. Logs things. It's setuid on my system.
• ppp-config - the configuration file I use for ppp-connect on my system.
• smarthost-rbl - if you get your mail through a smarthost, you can't use the RBL directly - this script parses "Received" headers and allows you to use the RBL at one remove.

Crypto related

• SPKI-Perl-0.02.tar.gz - the beginnings of an SPKI toolkit in Perl. Currently this has only one module, for fiddling with S-expressions.
• ciphersaber - the Ciphersaber cryptosystem in four lines of pure Perl.
• ncheck.c - an implementation of Shamir and van Someren's algorithm for finding high entropy stretches of binary files, described in Playing hide and seek with stored keys. This is the only non-Perl currently here...

Other

• login-magic - I once wanted to use bash in an environment that only set up the csh environment properly, so this was my solution: this script runs csh to find out what environment variables it set up, then emits sh directives to do the same work.
• gen-xf - a teensy calculator for X video mode timings.