Re: reverse engineering
From: Thomas Matthews (Thomas_MatthewsSpamBotsSuck_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:42:25 GMT
cppaddict wrote:
>>In most scenarios, rewriting the code from scrate takes less
>>resources than reverse-engineering. Searching the web for
>>equivalent processes is far less time consuming. Also searching
>>patents takes less time than reverse-engineering the code.
>
>
> Is this so even when what needs to be reverse-enineered is not an
> entire application, but just one specific portion of that
> application's logic?
>
> In my case, there are two files (a total of about 1.5MB). Does anyone
> know if that would be considered a large or small task?
>
> Thanks again,
> cpp
>
> PS: Someone mentioned this was off-topic. If there is a better group
> to post to please let me know what it is.
The size of the executable doesn't really matter. For example,
a compiler is a big project whether you feed it a small simple
program or a large complex one. So in this case, reverse engineering
a large file should take a little more time than a smaller file.
However, creating the tool is still a monumental task.
Also be aware that the source code generated from such a machine
will not have the comments, variable names or function names that
the original had. Also, what may be coded in the original as
a "for" loop may translate into a while loop. Also, how does
the machine know when a library call starts versus a user created
function?
If you're still serious, start searching the web.
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