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Topic created on: June 10, 2007 12:45 CDT by m0a .

Hey amig0s, this is m0a.

I am new to this re, need some suggestions. A quick question...

"Where did you begin your RE from...?"
I meant learning, testing, studying more about it etcetera..,

Any links and ans would be appreciated. And i am sorry for my bad English and this dumb question. Thanks.

  frankboldewin     June 10, 2007 14:50.49 CDT
first you should have good assembly skills and of course skills in the high level language you like to reverse, e.g. C/C++, Visual Basic, Delphi and so forth.
next you should buy a good book on reversing, like eldad eilams "secrets of reverse engineering".
tools of the trade are:

masm 9
ollydbg
ida pro
perhaps windbg/syser/softice

this should be a good startup!

later you could study, compilers and their optimizations, OOP code reversing, bug hunting in binary code, antidebugging tricks etcetera.

further, good systemprogramming skills are very valuable.

  GynvaelColdwind     June 11, 2007 02:11.30 CDT
As for test subjects for RE, try doing some crackme's (crackme @ google). It's a fun way to begin reverse engineering and learing real life antiRE tricks

  jms     June 11, 2007 08:51.39 CDT
http://www.crackmes.de

  b0ne     June 11, 2007 12:04.31 CDT
There's some decent high level information here as well: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reverse_Engineering

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