Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the Undeobfuscatable

Re:Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the... by saagarjha on Sunday June 21, 2020 @11:27PM (#23597146)

I found it fairly reasonable, although you'd have to have a general idea of the subject beforehand. I read it as a being aimed at reverse engineers who are looking for some general techniques to bypass common anti-debugging/obfuscation features rather than "how to reverse engineer apps 101".

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Re:Reverse Engineering Snapchat (Part II): Debofuscating the... by reagent_finder on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:41AM (#23599145)

"Reasonable" is a stretch, "interesting" is the right word. Personally I'd put this in the "Oh, huh" box along with quantum crypto. It's interesting, it's complex and it's got way too many engineering hours behind it... but ultimately for 99% of people or even 99% of computer scientists or HN readers, it's just fascinating trivia.

I absolutely appreciate these posts, this guy spent WEEKS delving into the depths of SnapChat just for the joy of discovery.

Maybe a good classification would be that part 1 is detailing a number of obfuscation techniques and the key thing to take away is that all of them CAN be bypassed.

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