Better understanding manual reverse engineering can make it and any associated systems reengineering more effective. We reverse engineered a version of a system (referred to as "BOS/X") in support of a broader reengineering effort. System reengineering goals and other circumstances dictated a focused, limited duration, manual reverse engineering exercise. This presented an opportunity to study ...

Applications of reverse engineering to speeding up a product realization process have gained momentum in recent years. The Internet has found increasingly more applications in manufacturing. Internet-based reverse engineering takes advantage of the recent developments in the above two areas. This paper presents the methodology of Internet-based reverse engineering and a case study will illustra...

Java applets have been used increasingly on web sites to perform client-side processing and provide dynamic content. While many web site analysis tools are available , their focus has been on static HTML content and most ignore applet code completely. This paper presents a system that analyzes and tracks changes in Java ap-plets. The tool extracts information from applet code about classes, met...

This chapter introduces readers to the term reverse engineering (RE), and to the associated techniques that can be used for scanning physical parts. In addition, the chapter presents the process of reverse engineering and the strategy for scanning and converting the scanned data into a 3-D surface or solid model.

: Network security plays an increasingly important role in technology. As the world gets more and more interconnected, the need for security increases. While there are several tools that offer a fair amount of security, it is still crucial that students are educated well on the design and operation of malware, and learn to develop countermeasures that prevent malicious activity. To assist in th...

eMule is a popular peer-to-peer (p2p) client which builds upon the severbased eDonkey2000 (ed2k) platform. In newer versions of eMule, lookups can also be performed over the serverless Kad-network, an implementation of a distributed hash table (DHT) called Kademlia. Since only little is known about the techniques and algorithms used by eMule, this thesis presents an analysis of the implementati...