Workshops/Reverse engineering day

Information for Reverse Engineering Day

There is a hackspace project to reverse engineer the chinese laser cutter software to discover its secrets, and allow us to make something a little bit better. So we are planning on having a day on the 15th of Jan dedicated to all things reverse engineering. It will be a day of code hacking and prodding the binary files generated by the laser cutter software.

There will be also be a couple of talks, for those that wish. I'm doing a beginner's guide to patching with Ollydbg, and Mark is doing something on the differences between the low-level guts of windows and linux.

Things you will Need

If you want to play along.

Will's Demo- Windows system or wine + Ollydbg

Bring food: There will be some number of bacon butties for lunch. Other things will need to be brought along. We have a grill and microwave but no hob

For jasper's sofware:

• Mercurial to acquire it from his server
• pyusb (from here )
• More information can be found in this email and the things it links to.

Communication and file storage

Tentative:

1. laz0rs on freenode

File storage: unknown

Useful non-reverse engineering stuff

We could do with setting up the old dirty room for presentations, so we can have presentations later on.

Tickets

To be sorted out. We probably won't need any.

When?

A 1 day hacking thing on 15th of January

Where?

Laboratory 24.

Saturday

• At some point : Will's (eb4890) talk : How to patch software with minimal ASM knowledge
• At some other point  : Mark's (ms7821) talk

For who?

Anyone that knows a bit about the internals of a computer (file formats or machine archs)!

Possibly attending:

• Ciarán
• Fed
• Matte
• Morris
• Tasos
• Sam
• Jasper
• Mark
• Will
• alexs
• artag
• MattP
• dsikar
• Nigle
• Chrisp
• Hikey
• SamLR

How much?

There is no charge HOWEVER the space survives on donations and member subscriptions. We recommend a voluntary donation of £X for the day.