Linux Reversing Essays

A new addition to the essays collection courtesy of Red Plait. See the bottom of the page. If you're interested in more tools/essays (and if you speak Russian) try this site.

Compiled here is a modest collection of essays concerning reverse engineering on the Linux/Unix platform. I have listed them in chronological order, this seeming the most logical method at the time. I should have done it in reverse though with hindsight. Now I'm too lazy to change it ;-)

I think this page could use yet more contributions though, and I will gladly publish any Linux/Unix based reverse engineering essays (Linux/Unix essays on other topics are also welcome and will be published elsewhere on this site).

Reverse engineering the Linux OS, a first approach by SiuL+Hacky, 15 October 1997

Simple unix busting by Dr. Fuhrball, 6 November 1997

Linux cracking: the live approach by SiuL+Hacky, 12 November 1997

Linux GUIs. The Chances by SiuL+Hacky, 1 March 1998

Ltrace: The Tool by SiuL+Hacky, 10 July 1998

Reverse Engineering a Linux/X Target by +ReZiDeNt, 20 July 1998

Flexlm, the Flexible lies manager by SiuL+Hacky, 6 September 1998

Linux cracking by adq, 26 October 1998

About Introducing Your Own Code by SiuL+Hacky, 23 December 1998

Analysis of Key Generation Techniques within FlexLM by Nolan Blender, 30 July 1999

UNIX libraries' preprocessor for IDA Pro by Red Plait, April 2000