/toggle-container Home Activism Health Miscellaneous Religion Self Writing Technology About Code Photos @emilyst Home Activism Health Miscellaneous Religion Self Writing Technology About Code Photos @emilyst /navigation-inner /navigation A Gentle Primer on Reverse Engineering 27 Jan 15 / emilyst / Comments Off /post-header Over the weekend at Women Who Hack I gave a short demonstration on reverse engineering. I wanted to show how “ cracking ” works, to give a better understanding of how programs work once they’re compiled. It also serves my abiding interest in processors and other low-level stuff from the 80s. My goal was to write a program which accepts a password and outputs whether the password is correct or not. Then I would compile the program to binary form (the way in which most programs are distributed) and attempt to alter ...