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Code obfuscation and source code repositories
As I understand, code obfuscation is used to make reverse engineering difficult/hard for the adversaries/red team. Now if I use a source code obfuscator where a .C/.CPP file is used as input and an ...
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Is using IsBadReadPtr and IsBadWritePtr considered to be insecure?
I am auditing (reverse engineering) an x86 C++ application without source code. Static analysis revealed that the application is using the IsBadReadPtr and IsBadWritePtr Win32 functions in almost ALL ...
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Identifying the author(s) of a piece of malware
When a new piece of malware appears, people can try to determine where it comes from, and who its authors could be. How do security experts attempt to identify the authors of a new publicly disclosed ...
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How could a publicly available stream cipher (RC4) be kept secret so long?
I'm reading about the cryptographic function called RC4. Apparently, its method was kept secret from 1987 until 1994 despite being available to the public for licensing and use. How did it stay ...
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Should we protect web application source code from being stolen by web hosts through obfuscation?
Is it worth to obfuscate a java web app source code so that the web host cannot make wrong use of the code or even steal your business? If so, how should this be dealt with? How should we obfuscate? ...
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