L I N K S
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reverser's favourites links
Reverser's Nofrill
Web design
('98 & '99)
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partly updated October
1999
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Links, ah links! My links page starts -fitting enough- with a
search engines form, because
links are a funny thing: they keep moving around
and changing, they must be continuously fixed and require a lot of updating.
The Web moves like quicksand, good sites, appear and
disappear among waves of crap. Anyway, if
you learn the relevant search techniques you will not need
many links, you'll always be able to find quickly what you needThis said here
you'll find quite a lot of links to places,
resources or minds that I believe you should in due time visit. I did visit
all of them, and I keep doing it whenever I have the time,
and I like them, else they would not be here. I like sites where
you can see somebody working on his OWN (every kid and his dog is capable
of "scrapping together" a site of sort, stealing
some info here and there). The difficulty is to GIVE something worth
so that others may work on it. I don't like 'frills': I
link only to sites I found worth, and I
am very slow, so don't be deceived if your phantastic site is not here :-)
Of course, cela va sans dire, all my links are commented
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Links die, searching does not
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(Many 'ephemerical' links are provided on the two "reverser's"
message boards: GENERAL and TOT,
moderated by Master Svd, iefaf, Mammon_ and myself... both well worth a visit)
GENERAL
(everything but reversing tools)
~ 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE' (only)
Casting on this page... reversers and protectors
in alphabetical order |
+Aesculapius,
+Greythorne the Technomancer,
+Indian Trail,
+Malattia,
+Mammon_,
+Rezident,
+Sandman,
.sozni,
Caprino,
Carpatia,
Chaos Computer Club,
Clive Turvey,
Corleone,
Crackz,
Cristina Cifuentes,
DaVinci,
Frans Faase,
Frog's print,
Fyodor,
Ghiribizzo,
Icedragon,
Iczelion,
Ilfak Guilfanov,
L0pht heavy industries,
LordCaligo,
Mailman,
Matt Pietrek,
Mexelite,
Patasitez,
Phrozen crew,
Quantico,
Richard Fellner,
Rob Beckers,
Saltine,
Satanic sysads,
Stone,
Sudden discharge,
The intel crackers,
Torn@do,
Tricky Mickey,
United Cracking Force,
Virus programming,
Vitas Ramanchauskas,
Ytc.
reverser's links: A) anti-cracking links |
Vitas Ramanchauskas' site:
http://www.soft4you.com/vitas/antihack.htm
Some interesting techniques and original ideas
Richard Fellner's anti-crack tips
http://www.user.xpoint.at/r.fellner/nocrack.htm
(most of them have been shamelessly stolen from my site :-)
Rob Beckers' How to Battle Warez:
http://www.cat-soft.com/warez.htm
A VERY interesting part about site tracking and elementary/intermediate stalking techniques
On this site: my "programmer's corner" and my
"our protections" sections.
reverser's links: B) reverse engineering related sites
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+Greythorne
gthorne(at)cyberspace(point)com ~ +HCU Ambassador on all
IRC domains.
+Greythorne (1)
+Greythorne (2)
+Greythorne (3)
+Greythorne's ftp site
the official repository of the +orcpacks
Greythorne the Technomancer
has a series of assembler essays and a
lot of "orcpacks", i.e. +ORC's lesson with ALL (yes,
all) the targets (i.e. the
programs) that +ORC uses in his tutorial. On his site you'll find very important
introductions to assembly language and many other goodies. Since he spreads
real knowledge, Greythorne
has been censored a lot on the web. +Greythorne is an
Unix guru, a System administrator, a wizard of knowledge and my web_brother since 1996.
Don't let the "poor" graphic design of his sites fool you! +gthorne
is in reality a famous web-designer!
This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web. Visiting +gthorne's pages
you'll find EVEN MORE than on my own ones... he is
one of the few good crackers which give
away his (very deep) knowledge without even thinking about
compensation
+HCU Linux Page
+Rezident's work. This main +HCU current project is strictly for Tux lovers, though... see also +Greythorne's Linux messageboard!
Matt Pietrek's own page
I don't believe there is any need to present to my readers one of the greatest geniuses
in the reversing world: MATT PIETREK. Unlike some
other commercial oriented
baloons, that fill WHSmith's shelves with useless cram, Matt
has written few books... yet every single page of those books is a
MUST READ for anyone
seriously working against our Micro$oft banes. Matt Pietrek is a great mighty
wizard... and a great teacher... and you should by all means pay visit to his pages at
http://www.tiac.net/users/mpietrek/
Clive Turvey's own page
I don't believe there is any need to present to my readers Clive
Turvey either. Clive is the (very capable) programmer-improver of Schulman's
Windoze's Sourcer
(from V communications), one of the basic tools of our trade. Moreover he has
created and keeps creating creative tools that you would be well advised to download,
study and use. You'll find everything he has done (with source code) on his good
site! Enjoy the works of this mighty reverser! (Here the main
entrance to his site)
Frans Faase's decompilation page.
It is now updated and maintained by Cristina Cifuentes, one of the authorities of the
decompilation 'establishment'. Very interesting site in order to gain an historical perspective
about programming languages decompilation.
http://www.surf.to/tapu/:
Tapu's Strange World.
Tapu links everywhere you want to go (tapu(at)iainc(point)net)
Tapu is another Net
legend, and I always liked her site's "Indian" look.
Tapu is a great poetess, of beautiful sensible nature ("I'm never sure how
much we really HAVE genders here in this sparkling otherworld of packets
and loss") and a clever follower of all sort of underground links, unfortunately her
links are NOT commented (as for now :-), which is a pity to say the least,
because she knows the scene like few others. You should by all means visit Tapu,
you'll never regret it.
+Frog's print A master of reversing, a great +cracker, a friend of mine
Frog's print is one among the best European crackers, his essays are outstanding,
his knowledges inferior only to his intuition and feeling of the code. A great page
and a great +cracker, visit him by all means!
+Mammon_
Awesome site! Incredible treasures of
knowledge!
+Mammon_ is a very clever +cracker and philosopher, he developed an incredibly
interesting site that
let many more famous sites bite dust! This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web. A MUST visit for
everyone seriously interested in reverse engineering.
+Mammon_'s tales to his Grandson are particularly
interesting, but the whole part dedicated to the
(monstruous) windows'
register is worth a visit too. Very good site: I'm
impressed. I sincerely believe +Mammon_ to be one of the most resourceful and gifted
reversers around. His pages contain TRUE STRONG KNOWLEDGE!
+ReZiDeNt's very
good "Ministry of reverse engineering"
You will find quite a lot of interesting
stuff on this VERY
GOOD (if a little GreatBritain biased :-) page... a MUST visit for
icecreams afecionados and
for anyone seriously interested into reverse engineering.
Besides, +ReZiDeNt is
a CONSCIENTIOUS european +cracker and a Corel protections wizard.
You'll find a lot of USEFUL stuff on his site. Worthy and
sparkling site: visit it!
+Malattia's
great site USEFUL FOR BEGINNERS
+Malattia is a computer book writer and editor that knows quite well the
whole +scene and
a good capable reverser. He is also a very kind and altruistic
person (I know him personally: we drank beer together more than once :-)
and is already helping talented beginners with a selection
of beginners essays. He is now specialising in "links that count" and
functionality adding & ameliorating. It would be quite interesting for any reader, I am sure,
to have a look at his recent perl scripts. His site is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web!
+Sandman: a very good
site USEFUL FOR BEGINNERS
+Sandman is an +ORC's student and a good 'ethical' cracker. You'll find a very interesting
thread and many good essays on his site. A relatively "recent" good site that is
quickly gaining importance in the scene.
This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web, and is particularly indicated for beginners in software reverse engineering.
http://www.x86.org/ THE INTEL CRACKERS!
A fundamental site: intel secrets (intel crackers)... if you did not know that
there are SECRET OPCODES then visit these assembly wizard
talented crackers!
CrackZ's reverse engineering homepage
A worthy collection of miscellaneous tutorials
USEFUL FOR BEGINNERS
You will find quite a lot of interesting
stuff on this VERY
GOOD page... a MUST visit
for people disassembling visual basic, besides,
Crackz (crackz__(at)hotmail(point)com) is
a GOOD cracker, and
you'll find a lot of USEFUL tutorial on his site. Good and
interesting site: visit it!
Mailman's site "always worth"
(gstamp19(at)mail(point)idt(point)net)
Interesting and GOOD page (a pity he wants
to throw it away... besides,
he offered me a stable URL, and I'll never
forget it :-)
+Aesculapius
+Aesculapius is an +HCU TEACHER, and a really gifted
reversing +wizard. He is a real great +cracker, capable to teach and to work
on difficult projects. He is moreover the author of the 'new generation' of
assembly based protections (see protecti.htm)
He helds at the
moment the +HCU advanced courses and has published the new
+HCU STRAINER (for 1999): try your hand at the beastly
Trujillo protection! (The various elements of this protection support eachother :-)
+Aesculapius has prepared this great project!
On this site you'll find an extremely interesting collection of tools
(among many other interesting
things: this is a very GOOD site)... least but not last:
visit Aesculapius' pages
and you will
never need to search again for icecreams (not that
anyone needs to search long
for them... the web is saturated with "our" icecreams
:-)
LordCaligo A
worthy list of cracking tutorials and one of the best sites around...
caligo(at)lords(point)com
even I did not know about some of these tutorials... This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web. It's a real pity that Caligo wants to give it up...
Besides LordCaligo's tools are
REALLY interesting... you'll find here even some OFFICIAL +HCU TOOLS (see my
tools page). Hey, does'nt "Caligo" mean "nebel" in some old-forgotten dialect?
Virus
programming instruction &
tools
Interesting and GOOD page for info
about coding... I could not care less about
virii, but I care A LOT about virus programming itself
(and virus' disassembling)
for SOME VERY IMPORTANT motives:
1)
Virii's Authors are compelled to write
very TIGHT code
2) virus disassembling is one of the
oldest and most important reverse engineering branches
(you are a dead Sysadministrator if you do not have a
good reverse engineer at hand as soon as a strong virus
invades your
intranet)
3) The code they use is very "clever" in
matters that have an enormous importance for reverse
engineers, like "cloaking", "junking", "purpose
hiding", "boat riding" and
"deferring"
All good reasons to study
old "obsolete" DOS virus code... didn't you read +ORC's
tutorial? Knowledge of software's history is in itself
a marvellous Weapon! You will learn (and for free) from
some old forgotten virii MORE tricks than from
all "NEW" so called 'undocumented' books
together!
You want a really good virus information site? You better
know your spanish, though: http://members.xoom.com/pata666/pata.htm,
the patasitez (spanish speaking virus wizards)
Doug Harp: From Inertia
to reverse engineering
Useful for beginners: he has a 'cracking for newbies' section. Read (and head) his
"why everyone should crack" section/introduction!
Iczelion's Cracking Resource (Main Page): A very good site.
Useful for beginners and intermediate alike. Worth a place on your 'regular visit
trip'
As Iczelion's (iczelion(at)galaxycorp(point)com) writes: "Assembly language is usually dismissed as "unsuitable" or
even downright "unpractical" tool for Win32 development. Not so! Writing assembly programs
for Win32 platform is indeed possible and easy. Don't believe what you hear from Micro$oft!
See for yourself!"
This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web. A MUST visit for tools collectors.
And here you have the extremely interesting Iczelion's Win32 Assembly Forum!
Quantico (mexelite): A very good site.
One of Mexelite's best grips. Worth a place on your 'regular visit
trip'
ytc's cracking library: A good site.
Softice... you should buy it at NuMega, of course... for a limited
amount of days (don't remember if 30, 14 or 622 :-) you may experiment and
play with this powerful debugger using some of the demo copies that you should be able to
find on the Web following these three links:
Look what we have here... a site completely dedicated to the best debugger
of this planet...
(Of course you may always find what you need if you use the
correct ftp search pattern :-)
(Of course you may always find what you need if you use the
correct Altavista query)
Torn@do
The cracker's notes, by Torn@do are a very useful and well managed
source of reverse engineering tips (wrote CrackZ, and I agree :-)
Tricky Mickey´s
A good swedish programmer/reality cracker: "I think that the best sites are those
that provide information and has a very fast loading time". He's (or was :-) music
oriented.
Fyodor
Fyodor! This is a link to follow, especially if you are a bit
into hacking as well. Fyodor's
page is a TREASURE for knowledge seekers!
Chaos Computer Club
you don't know what's the ccc? Be ashamed! (I held a workshop at their
Camp "Software reverse engineering: Beyond simple protection cracking", in August 1999, nice people)
UCF '97 United Cracking Force
"official" page
As you know we don't care much for groups (our aim
is to teach EVERYBODY how to crack) but this one is a real good group,
which together with the mighty Phrozen Crew rules the release scene.
Ilfak Guilfanov's
http://www.datarescue.com/flirt.htm FLIRT! ~
Fast Library Identification and Recognition Technology!
I don't need to remind my readers about WHO is this russian genius, do I?
"...real life programs contain, on average, 50% of library functions. This
is why the user of a disassembler is forced to waste more than half of his time isolating
those library functions. The analysis of an unknown program resembles the resolution of
a gigantic crossword puzzle : the more letters we know, the easier it is to guess
the next word. During a disassembly, more comments and meaningful names in a function
means a faster understanding of its purpose. Widespread use of standard libraries such
as OWL, MFC and others increase even more the contribution of the standard functions in
the target program". This is a link and an approach for real reversers. I hope
many of my readers will help Ilfak (and Datarescue) on this...
.sozni
http://www.mod.lv/sozni/index2.htm
[sozni(at)usa(point)net]
an ActiveX wizard, NT-security expert and great master reverser!
In fact .sozni seems to have gone a long way all on his own. Visit his very
good site
and you'll find a WEALTH of extremely interesting essays about
OCX controls (but not only).
Ghiribizzo:
famous for his tutorials in pdf format. Ghiribizzo is
very interested about the legal aspects of our activity.
L0pht heavy
industries more Hackers than Crackers
(This site offers moreover
a nice
possibility to learn the first elements of the 'klebing' Web-search
technique. If you are interested in this you may want to read my
sear1197.htm 'how to
search the web' lesson)
Read Icedragon's tutorial on Softice
and then visit this good site at
http://failure.ml.org/~mib
USEFUL FOR BEGINNERS
Phrozen crew site 1;
Phrozen crew site 2;
Phrozen crew site 3;
these
guys rule, a must
for ALL cracking/keygen/reversing enthusiasts master_davinci(at)yahoo(point)com
This is the most known and most 'prolific' cracking group of the world...
good wizard
Saltine is/was a crew member (among many other good crackers). The PC-guys have
reversed some
INCREDIBLE protection schemes, yet they seem to
prefer to keep cracks 'among crackers' somehow and have only
recently begun to deliver (very
good) essays to the scene :-)
http://www.ice.org/~davinci/:
Master DaVinci's own page. The greatest artist of the cracking world (you may have a look at his
creation for me on entran.htm :-)
Stone's page
Stone's page
(On 13 february 1998 the mirror of this page was
CENSORED together with my own and +gthorne's mirrors).
A spectacular site with a lot of own-made (stonemade) programs and probes.
This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web. A MUST visit
for anyone interested in our trade.
See the packers & unpackers list there...I like Stone's site
quite a lot :-)
&
+Indian Trail's sites... a
site up in the Sierra, very
stimulating, especially if you are into games' structure reversing and stripping
or into magnetic strip decoding (a sparkling field :-)
Corleone's cracking site:a recent arrival, very well made
and with some very interesting tutorials. Unfortunately some tutorials are still in
serbo-croatian :-)
Well worth a visit!
sudden discharge: a great place... you won't regret visiting
this site for sure (The numero uno site in runtime encrypition according to Master Stone :-)
Caprino's page with REC and his very interesting
experiments in decompiling.
satanic sysads true masters,
yet they don't seem to understand much about beers else they would
drink Leffe Blonde (or even heaven's Ename) and not the crap beers they list :-) This is a MUST VISIT site for all
linux lovers...
Can't find what you'r looking for?
Ok, so you dunnow where to start... well, in that case:
http://start.at/these.urls.first of course :-)
+HCU Maillist
HCU main maillist
for those who want to discuss HCU related topics with other +crackers.
Many of the
Webmasters above (and most great wizards) ARE on the main (public)
list, which is directed by +Zer0 and kept at the moment by
+Malattia and +greythorne in absentia +Zeri
Have a look at the: Webrepository of our main maillist
reverser's links: C) other sites
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Link to every
assembly
language link or tutorial that you may need (assembly cuts, beware!)
And if you want to learn specific "windows geared" assembly tricks and procedures, visit
WhizKid's
"Assembly Language source code download" section!
A master security hacker you'll learn here quite a
lot (advanced unix hacking)
password recovery
for all password related circumstances :-)
The art of spam hunting:
http://www.blighty.com/spam/docs.html
Tricky Mickey´s own site
(quite eclectic... he's interested inter alia "in wine and wine making"... yet
this clever webmaster has good info in his sections
"web survival" and "searching")
PGP attacks
for all PGP related circumstances :-)
Gary McGath master antispammer You'll
learn A LOT here
Encryption cracking page
opcodes galore
Something to read till the system administrators come home
Well, if you have a look at the geek-girl bugtraq repository...
you will find some QUITE interesting hacking ideas that should work at least for the next
twenty years... :-)
This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web.
Something more to read till the system administrators come home
http://www.rootshell.com: rootshell exploits!
Stegano information
F. Hansmann's steganography page (Author of Steganos)
Crypto information
Lost your marbles? Lost your keys? For
"Key Recovery Contests" and
"Key Recovery Utilities"
you would be well advised to visit Joe Peschel's
Computer
Security,
Encryption, and
Cryptanalysis (good :-) page.
Other HTML and OSs information
HTML Quick Reference (including Explorer and Netscape
extensions)
Windows95 Annoyances (pretty useful)
Frank Condron's World O'Windows (Windows 95 Bag
O'Tips)
Legal Mumbo-Jumbo about software contracts
Useful if you are a programmer with software to publish (in the real world)... the part about
"source code in escrow" underlines the importance of our work, actually. (Escrow in
this context means a safe place where the publisher can't get to the source code
unless certain conditions are met, like the death of the programmer :-) because 'normal' people believes that
"Maintenance at the object-code level is next to impossible".).
Matt's CGI - Perl Cookbook
SAMS computer books on-line (you better
have your ISBN number ready, tough)
NetBots
"The Spot for all Bots on the Net"
Frank Yellin's
Low Level Security in Java
Web
Counters and Trackers Access Counters for Web
Sites; Free Counters; Web site auditing
Places you go to learn or reverse interesting facts
Time
J R Stockton's Critical and Significant Dates
Time handling for programmers and reversers... (and all the problem we get because
the Tropical Year is currently about 365.242190 days, yet
the Gregorian Year averages exactly 365.2425 days).
And if you still don't understand
why this is important for us... at the end of each year, Windows 98
gains two days or loses one. Micro$oft says that this only occurs if Windows 98
is started within a particular but defined second of the last minute of the year and that
a fix is being developed. But Risks Digest says that it
can occur any day, if one boots during a critical five seconds slot near midnight.
Claus Tondering's
Frequently asked questions about calendars.
Books
Computing McGraw-Hill
Prentice Hall
Addison Wesley
Sybex
Free computer bookslets from KnowWare, Scandinavia.
The Collection of
Computer Science Bibliographies Alf-Christian Achilles' fantastic resource, to understand how
useful this can be
for our purposes, see for instance "Software Forensics: Can We Track Code to its
Authors? by Eugene Spafford and Stephen Weeber
reverser's links: D) real information
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__Information, a reality cracking
tool if you find it__
To understand the world
means to crack it: all
information is hidden behind
the idiotic propaganda used in almost every newspaper,
TV-channel and magazine only
in order to tame the consum slaves of this society.
Nevertheless at times a little truth suddenly emerges, like the top of an iceberg in
the fog. Here are a bunch of good info links
__General
information__
Le
Monde diplomatique *very* good, one of the best
sources of information of this planet, a little 'pauperistic' and 'whiny', but they see through reality
better than many others. This is one of
the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES
of the whole web, without any doubt... hope you can read some
french... anyway there is
also a on-line version in english!
This magazine will give you monthly enough material to easily
crack any newspaper or TV-info around you. Best buy.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
among the best information sources in the whole world... of course they need a 'clear' world image in order
to sell their chocolate and their
watches... and could not care less about "ready-made" truths!
The
Economist for those of you who can read only
English (Karl Marx was an avid reader of the Economist :-) there is a lot of disinformation as well, but it
is -at least- VERY cleverly presented
Well, I have started my own 'reversing The Economist' section, see if you like it!
Reversing Information
El Pais good to average
"european style" information,
especially valuable for people interested in south American affairs
__The Chomsky's
papers__
Keeping the Rabble in Line by Noam Chomsky, interviewed by David Barsamian, a must
for everybody (very cool and precise analyse of the world affairs... a little too much anti-Israeli, for the rest correct)
ANOTHER
important book by Chomsky
(both the above links represent only a small
part of Chomsky's cutting
interpretations... you'll
find the whole Chomsky-thought here read
these pages as soon as you can, you'll not regret it!
I'm not Chomskian myself (far from it), but his views
and mine do actually converge on so many points that I'm glad he
exists and teaches :-)
__Satyrical information__
a) for crackers
Carpathia's lamerlogs I personally never IRC, but
reading this I understand I'm loosing some good laugh.
b) for anyone
The Onion quite light,
but not bad at all, could be dubbed "the reversers' paper", since it is actually
very often a good source of reversing thoughts.
McSWEENEY'S STORIES by David Eggers (parodies Esquire)
The Baffler, each issue seeks archly to debunk the hip-seeking excesses of the corporate culture business
(it's not completely on-line yet, though)
__Art information__ (good "Imagebases")
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Thinker Imagebase
Webseek A Content-Based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web
__Books__
the on-line books page here you'll find enough
to read (for free) for the rest of your life, just manage to find a printer with a lot of
paper in some remore corner of your office or download the files you are interested in
and let one of the many
automated readers (programs that you can get for free on the web) read these books to you! Bye bye WH Smith!
__Prosody__
Arnaut & Karkur's ultimate on-line prosody resource
(in case you really dunnow what a iambic pentameter is :-)
reverser's links: E) private links
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you'll access my private links clicking
here
Watch it... my private links page is the only page of
mine that HAS images
(quite a lot) and will therefore be much slower to
load. It's a private links
page, seldom updated, and some of the links there have NOTHING to do with
reverse engineering, and although you may peruse it at
will, you are not allowed to judge its contents
:-)
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