CONTENTS
Preface
There are several popular meanings of the term “reverse engineering”:
The reverse engineering of software; researching compiled programs
The scanning of 3D structures and the subsequent digital manipulation required in order to duplicate
them
RecreatingDBMS^7 structure
This book is about the first meaning.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the CPL^8. Recommended reading:12.1.3 on page 1012.
Exercises and tasks
...can be found at:http://challenges.re.
About the author
Dennis Yurichev is an experienced reverse engineer and programmer.
He can be contacted by email:[email protected].Praise forAssembly Language for Beginners
- “Now that Dennis Yurichev has made this book free (libre), it is a contribution to the world of free
knowledge and free education.” Richard M. Stallman, GNU founder, software freedom activist. - “It’s very well done .. and for free .. amazing.”^9 Daniel Bilar, Siege Technologies, LLC.
- “... excellent and free”^10 Pete Finnigan, Oracle RDBMS security guru.
- “... [the] book is interesting, great job!” Michael Sikorski, author of Practical Malware Analysis: The
Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software. - “... my compliments for the very nice tutorial!” Herbert Bos, full professor at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, co-author of Modern Operating Systems (4th Edition). - “... It is amazing and unbelievable.” Luis Rocha, CISSP / ISSAP, Technical Manager, Network & Infor-
mation Security at Verizon Business. - “Thanks for the great work and your book.” Joris van de Vis, SAP Netweaver & Security specialist.
(^7) Database Management Systems
(^8) Programming Language
(^9) twitter.com/daniel_bilar/status/
(^10) twitter.com/petefinnigan/status/
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