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FOSDEM

FOSDEM did not deceive me at all – just the contrary. There were many interesting things and the ...

Capricious programming

Textbooks on software engineering prescribe to check preconditions at the beginning of a function. ...

FOSDEM

Each year in Brussels, Belgium there is a conference called FOSDEM. It is organized on the last ...

FindCrypt2

I realized that it is quite easy to make FindCrypt work with big endian programs. For that we just ...

FindCrypt

While analyzing a program quite often we want to know if it uses any crypto algorithm. Knowing the ...

Text and graphics

The last week Ero Carrera in his blog linked to this spectacular site:

Return to the sources?

A decompiler is commonly viewed as a tool to recover the source code of a program, the same way as ...

Back to normal operation

I restored the old configuration and the blog will continue its normal operation now. The hotfix ...

Silent WMF Hotfix Installer

The new version is suitable for automated setup (for example, in logon scripts). Due to popular ...