I randomly found this dragon on my computer, and I don't have the faintest
idea why it's there (it's not part of the nmap package).

-----
$ cat /usr/share/doc/nmap/leet-nmap-ascii-art.txt
( ) /\ _ (
\ | ( \ ( \.( ) _____
\ \ \ ` ` ) \ ( ___ / _ \
(_` \+ . x ( .\ \/ \____-----------/ (o) \_
- .- \+ ; ( O \____
(__ +- .( -'.- <. \_____________ ` \ /
(_____ ._._: <_ - <- _- _ VVVVVVV VV V\ \/
. /./.+- . .- / +-- - . (--_AAAAAAA__A_/ |
(__ ' /x / x _/ ( \______________//_ \_______
, x / ( ' . / . / \___' \ /
/ / _/ / + | \ /
' (__/ / \/
/ \ -----
OK, I found out: it was in the nmap-common package.
Still no idea why, though.
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On 9/11/2022 5:24 PM, Dario Niedermann wrote:

I randomly found this dragon on my computer, and I don't have the faintest idea why it's there (it's not part of the nmap package).

-----
$ cat /usr/share/doc/nmap/leet-nmap-ascii-art.txt
( ) /\ _ (
\ | ( \ ( \.( ) _____
\ \ \ ` ` ) \ ( ___ / _ \
(_` \+ . x ( .\ \/ \____-----------/ (o) \_
- .- \+ ; ( O \____
(__ +- .( -'.- <. \_____________ ` \ /
(_____ ._._: <_ - <- _- _ VVVVVVV VV V\ \/
. /./.+- . .- / +-- - . (--_AAAAAAA__A_/ |
(__ ' /x / x _/ ( \______________//_ \_______
, x / ( ' . / . / \___' \ /
/ / _/ / + | \ /
' (__/ / \/
/ \ -----
OK, I found out: it was in the nmap-common package.
Still no idea why, though.

That's awesome, that sort of easter egg can be used to prove the
authenticity of a package.
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Dario Niedermann wrote:

I randomly found this dragon on my computer, and I don't have the faintest idea why it's there (it's not part of the nmap package).

[...]

OK, I found out: it was in the nmap-common package.

In my older Debian GNU/Linux setup, it is right in the `nmap` package.

Not sure about the reason behind it either. And it seems not to be
the only one the in current Nmap SVN codebase...

https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/docs/leet-nmap-ascii-art.txt https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/docs/leet-nmap-ascii-art-pc.txt https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/docs/leet-nmap-ascii-art-eye.txt

My system seems to only have the first one (the dragon). The last one
is understandable as it is an ASCII version of Nmap logo.
For the dragon however, the bottommost/oldest thing that SVN history wand `TZ=UTC svn log https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/docs/leet-nmap-ascii-art.txt`
shown was:

r2684 | fyodor | 2005-04-26 03:25:51 +0000 (Tue, 26 Apr 2005) | 1 line

found at http://www.chris.com/ascii/

In that era, the artwork was at: <https://web.archive.org/web/20050415164210/http://www.chris.com/ASCII/art/html/monsters.html>
Or could be browsed from: <https://web.archive.org/web/20050525081213/http://www.chris.com/ascii/>
and select category "Monsters". Christopher Johnson (of chris.com)
himself didn't draw it however; as disclaimed in the ASCII art collection's front page.

Nowadays, this artwork is at: <https://asciiart.website/index.php?art=creatures/dragons> (<http://www.chris.com/ascii/> currently redirects to HTTPS,
and its HTTPS version redirects to <https://asciiart.website/>)

But why this artwork got included in Nmap in the first place?
Well, beats me.

Regards,
~xwindows
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