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A comment on Gwan – a fast 150kb web server supporting 14 scripting languages.

Re:Gwan – a fast 150kb web server supporting 14 scripting la... by userbinator on Monday August 04, 2014 @06:26AM (#8131032)
150KB? No... it's packed with UPX. Unpacked size is over 400KB.

This, and the fact that he seemingly chose to obfuscate random strings in the binary with an absolutely trivial cipher, make me quite wary of trusting this.

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Re:Gwan – a fast 150kb web server supporting 14 scripting la... by zorgium on Monday August 04, 2014 @06:34AM (#8131053)
A few releases ago, it was also killing (with segv!) whatever process was observing the server with ptrace(), such as gdb or strace. I ended up unpacking and firing IDA; found the routine, and yes, that was exactly what was happening. I don't know if the current version does that anymore.
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Re:Gwan – a fast 150kb web server supporting 14 scripting la... by MrBuddyCasino on Monday August 04, 2014 @08:12AM (#8131351)
Sure enough, trustleap.ch offers custom crypto, too. Quote: "TrustLeap will protect your data forever [...] we can do so without disclosing how it works."

These guys are, in all likelihood, selling gourmet food snake-oil.

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