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    Reverse Engineering

    Function Calls, Part 4 (What Exactly Is "this"?)

    Learn about a dissasembly view of function calls, and decipher the __thiscall calling convention.

    Product Keys Based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

    Protect Software with Product Keys based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

    Getting Started Reverse Engineering

    Lots of people complain that Windows and other products should be open sourced. Well, they are! It's just that you don't have C or VB source code you have assembly language binaries. In this month's article, John discusses how to get started thinking about reverse engineering so you can figure out how things work.