Reverse Engineering

[Haydz]

I've had a look around the forums and there doesn't seem to be any issue's regarding discussion of such a topic.

I'm just wondering if any of you people here have any knowledge on the subject, or any particular interest. I find it quite fascinating to be honest, not really on the whole idea of cracking/reversing/making key generators, just the whole idea of understanding what's going on at such a low level (in terms of the CPU).

I suppose my fascination is more with assembly itself than actually reversing and I suppose if you know/are advanced in assembly, your half way there, considering you can understand exactly what is going on and manipulate the instructions to do what you wish.

Basically, does anyone have a particular found interest in this and/or any knowledge? I've found quite a lot of handy resources and I'm just wondering if the benefit of learning assembly and then applying that to reverse engineering, is substantial enough to prevent me jumping right in with reversing?

 

[Haydz]

Yeah, I've gathered a list of websites that are heavy influenced by reverse engineering (tuts4you.com) for example, also features things like Crack & Reverse Me like programs to aid the community in learning.

Also gathering some "base" knowledge, by just briefly reading pages on Wikipedia. A friend linked me to what he believes are the "best" publicly available reverse engineering tutorials to date. The way they are delivered is rather annoying though - Lena's Reversing For Newbies. Website seems to be down unfortunately.

Will register at crackmes.de and unleash my godly knowledge upon them - (Yeah, Right), I will sign up though
I intend to find out what exactly constitutes as being illegal/legal, I know the concept of it is frowned upon yet I can't find anything that concludes it to be illegal in itself.

 

[Haydz]

Yeah, I do know bits of C# and C++, and I am currently going through a tutorial which fills the "gap" of knowledge needed in assembly before considering reversing.

I also have used IDA Pro + Hex-Rays plugin previously, the one that allows you to dump out Assembly into rather, choppy c++ code, it does help me understand it more though but I want to be able to understand the actual Assembly itself. I will definitely take a look at the Secrets of reversing book as mentioned previously.

Side note: Reversed/Cracked my first piece of software earlier , WorldTV 7.1. Wasn't exactly hard. But a website had it listed as easy software to crack for beginners, so I thought, why not