More on fortifying Lotus Notes

[Ben Laurie]

Dave Bird wrote:
> 
> In article <199906061307.OAA08481@notatla.demon.co.uk>,
> lists@notatla.demon.co.uk writes
> >The programmer can make life a bit more complicated by having more than one
> >check, and by not flagging the relevant instructions by putting them close
> >to the bail_with_error function.
> 
>  Another trick is to figure on automatic dis-assembly going straight
>  down the text (and put a valid load-with-32bit-constant opcode in
>  front) rather than jumped to (where it executes as a conditional junp).

Good disassemblers can spot this trick. Besides, the wise reverse
engineer reverse-engineers with a debugger (or an ICE if budget permits
:-), not a disassembler.

Cheers,

Ben.

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