From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:50:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050901215024.GA2925@midnight.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050901153915.GB1561@openzaurus.ucw.cz>
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:39:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > The 4020 and 0402 look oddly symmetrical to me, but that could just
> > > be my imagination.
> >
> > All I saw in it was byte n+1 = byte n >> 1. Can't see any use to that
> > either, though. Maybe it's just there to torment reverse engineerers, or
> > trap memory corruption?
>
> I had seen something like that before -- it was image compression
> and they were using 9bit "bytes"... which worked like obfuscation, too.
Yes, if they were using 7bit bytes, that'd explain the 0x81 in the
sequence ...
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-01 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-30 9:37 APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-30 15:49 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-08-30 16:01 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-31 16:55 ` Mark Lord
2005-08-31 17:02 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-31 19:53 ` Russell King
2005-08-31 20:32 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-31 20:50 ` Mark Lord
2005-09-01 3:29 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-01 3:36 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-01 15:39 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-01 21:50 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
[not found] <20050830085522.GA8820@midnight.suse.cz>
2005-08-30 10:19 ` Harald Welte
2005-08-30 12:18 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-30 12:56 ` Harald Welte
2005-08-30 13:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-08-30 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-30 20:17 ` David Lang
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