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Microcode in pictures

Since a picture is worth thousand words below are a few drawings for your perusal. Let us start at ...

IDAPython: wrappers are only wrappers

Intended audience IDAPython developers who enjoy the occasional headache, leaky abstraction ...

Deobfuscating xor'ed strings

A few days ago a customer sent us a sample file. The code he sent us was using a very simple ...

Decompiling floating point

It is a nice feeling, when, after long debugging nights, your software finally runs and produces ...

IDA on non-OS X/Retina Hi-DPI displays

The problem Some users running IDA on Windows & Linux X11 platforms with Hi-DPI displays, have ...

IDA and common Python issues

With IDA 7.0 switching fully to native x64 architecture, we also switched to the x64 Python which ...