Plain Text Protocols

Re:Plain Text Protocols by andrewmcwatters on Thursday February 25, 2021 @11:52AM (#26264891)

I'm sort of looking for something that will attempt to narrow down possibilities. The way I'd do it is by providing some visualizations based on the user selecting what data types and lengths they're looking for.

So for instance, if I know I'm looking at triangle data, I can guess that it's probably compressed, ask the app to decompress the data based on some common compression types, look at that data and guess that I'm looking at some floats or doubles.

Maybe I'm wrong, so then I can ask the app to search for other data types at that point.

To me, that would be a tremendous help over my experience with existing hex editors.

Edit: It's not fair for me to say there aren't tools that do exactly this, but to be more precise, a decent user experience is lacking in most cases.

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Re:Plain Text Protocols by stack_underflow on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:35PM (#26267914)

Your post reminded me of the presentation on cantor.dust:

  https://sites.google.com/site/xxcantorxdustxx/

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bM3Gut1hIk - Christopher Domas The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization
    (very interesting presentation)

Looks like there's even been a recently open sourced plugin for Ghidra released by Battelle:

  https://github.com/Battelle/cantordust

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