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Re:Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf] by huppeldepup on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:46AM (#38952825)
When he talked about the inability to jump to certain places it reminded me of a powerpoint I read a decade or two back that discussed the disassembly of Skype. They used any and every trick in the book to make disassembly impossible, like calculating an int, feeding it to a cosine instruction and the result would be the jump distance. I tried finding the powerpoint but alas Google is garbage these days, maybe the author can find some hints in there to reduce the amount of code coming out of the compiler.

Wish I had come up with this compiler, great stuff.

Re:Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf] by arthurmorgan on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:53AM (#38952929)
Re:Research paper is also an executable x86 program [pdf] by huppeldepup on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:14AM (#38966237)
It isn't, unfortunately. Thanks for looking, though. The presentation I had was a powerpoint that focussed entirely on the disassembly and anti-debugging tricks, nothing about networking or traffic analysis.