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 Reverse engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reverse engineering software or hardware systems which is done for the purposes of interoperability (for example, to support undocumented file formats or undocumented hardware peripherals), is mostly believed to be legal, though patent owners often contest this and attempt to stifle any reverse engineering of their products for any reason.
Reverse engineering is often used by military in order to copy other nations' technology, devices or information, or parts of which, have been obtained by regular troops in the fields or by intelligence operations.
Under United States law, reverse engineering a patented item can be infringement; however, if the artifact or process is protected by trade secrets instead of by a patent, then reverse engineering the artifact or process is lawful as long as the artifact or process is obtained legitimately.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reverse_engineering   (1415 words)

  
 FAQ about Reverse Engineering -- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
Reverse engineering as a method is not confined to any particular purpose, but is often an important part of the scientific method and technological development.
Supporters of the enforceability of anti reverse engineering provisions argue that this exception does not apply to licenses because it is defined only in terms of ownership, which remains under the control of the manufacturer in a licensing agreement.
The law regarding reverse engineering in the computer software and hardware context is less clear, but has been described by many courts as an important part of software development.
www.chillingeffects.org /reverse/faq.cgi   (5366 words)

  
 REVERSE ENGINEERING
Reverse engineering, as the name implies, is the reverse of this; in other words, the attempt to recapture the top level specification by analysing the product - "attempt" because it is not possible in practice, or even in theory, to recover everything in the original specification purely by studying the product.
The Plaintiff had no evidence of reverse engineering but pleaded that because of the complexity of the algorithm, it must be presumed to have occurred and the burden of disproof should lie on the Defendant.
Since reverse engineering still needs human input, at some stage the reverse engineering process needs to produce a complete system description of the product, to allow a human to work out how the product functions; it is only after this human analysis that the product can be split into its component parts.
www.jenkins-ip.com /serv/serv_6.htm   (5266 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering Overview
Reverse engineering is a development method that uses information about an existing entity to produce a new entity that has some of the same properties of the existing entity.
Dirty-room reverse engineering done by the same engineers who create emulation software runs the risk of deliberate or accidental copyright violations by incorporating portions of the software to be emulated in the emulator.
In Strictly Clean-Room Reverse Engineering, when it is determined that the specification that the clean-room engineers are working from is insufficient to produce the degree of compatibility desired, the only recourse is to search for additional documentation or to write additional tests.
www.ardi.com /reveng.php   (716 words)

  
 Define reverse engineering - a Whatis.com definition
Software reverse engineering involves reversing a program's machine code (the string of 0s and 1s that are sent to the logic processor) back into the source code that it was written in, using program language statements.
Another type of reverse engineering involves producing 3-D images of manufactured parts when a blueprint is not available in order to remanufacture the part.
Reverse engineering for the sole purpose of copying or duplicating programs constitutes a copyright violation and is illegal.
searchsmb.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci507015,00.html   (518 words)

  
 IEEE-USA Position Statement on Reverse Engineering
Engineers use this information for many purposes, including making other products interoperate with the target product that is the subject of the reverse engineering.
The term "reverse engineering" means the discovery by engineering techniques of the underlying ideas and principles that govern how a machine, computer program or other technological device works.
We further believe that lawful reverse engineering of computer programs is fundamental to the development of programs and software-related technology.
www.ieeeusa.org /policy/positions/reverse.html   (577 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering
The Reverse Engineering module is an engaging hands-on activity that helps students learn basic principles of circuit operation, how to identify electronic components, use a soldering iron,what piecework is, and helps develop the hand-eye coordination needed to work in electronic assembly, maintenance and repair.
Reverse Engineering involved taking apart a finished product piece by piece in order to learn how it was designed and produced.
A fancy name for taking things apart is Reverse Engineering and it was one of the reasons for Japan’s rise as a manufacturing and industrial power after World War II.
www.spiderwebsites.com /RevEng.html   (1398 words)

  
 Softpanorama University Reverse Engineering Links
The problem with reverse engineering for these modems is that together with the hardware specs, there is sufficient information about what SP algorithm they are using that a sufficienly knowledgeable person can reverse engineer everything out of their driver.
Reverse engineering raises many of the same questions as the user interface or "look-and-feel" copyright suits ten years ago.
Reverse engineering applied in the purpose of getting hardware specs out of the driver is OK with most of the driver companies.
www.softpanorama.org /SE/reverse_engineering_links.shtml   (5027 words)

  
 What Is Reverse Engineering?
Reverse engineering of a part may be attempted even if it is not cost effective, if the part is absolutely required and is mission-critical to a system.
Reverse engineering provides a solution to this problem because the physical model is the source of information for the CAD model.
Reverse engineering is typically cost effective only if the items to be reverse engineered reflect a high investment or will be reproduced in large quantities.
www.npd-solutions.com /reoverview.html   (821 words)

  
 Infothought: Reverse-engineering vs. fair-use, and censorware examples
There's a difference between the idea that "Reverse engineering itself, then, has been held to be fair use", per se, intrinsically, and that certain instances of reverse engineering have been held to be fair-use, but others have been denied as fair-use.
Reverse engineering itself, then, has been held to be fair use.
Now, however, some companies whose software has been reverse engineered have started to fight back.
sethf.com /infothought/blog/archives/000025.html   (588 words)

  
 PCB Reverse Engineering
The need for reverse engineering or re-engineering printed circuit boards (PCB's) comes about for a variety of reasons chief among them is the need to replace an obsolete board that is no longer available from the original manufacturer (OEM).
New and improved components and techniques may be utilized during the reverse engineering process improving operations, maintenance and support.
Click here for hardware and software links to information on reverse engineering.
www.armtec.net /1002.shtml   (587 words)

  
 Circuit Applied Technology: Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering is the art of disassembling an existing product into it's component parts for the purpose of generating documentation aimed at re-manufacture of the product.
stating their purpose for reverse engineering the printed circuit board to be contracted with CAT, which document absolves CAT, its owner(s), heirs and assigns from all liability for it's part in the reverse engineering of said printed circuit board.
CAT inputs the printed circuit board to be reversed engineered into our CAD system through a proprietary method such that it will be exactly like the original printed circuit board.
www.circuit-applied-tech.com /rev_eng.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Reverse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A reverse is also the name of a trick play in American football
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reverse   (86 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering Costs Benchmarking Association
The Reverse Engineering Costs Benchmarking Association™ is an association of management professionals that conduct benchmarking studies to identify the practices that improve the overall operations of the members.
To support the use of benchmarking to facilitate reverse engineering costs process improvement and the achievement of accuracy, timeliness and efficiency.
To create a cooperative environment where full understanding of the performance and enablers of "best in class" reverse engineering costs processes can be obtained and shared at reasonable cost.
www.ambcbenchmarking.org /recba.html   (646 words)

  
 Reverse engineering and documentation tools from Imagix Corp
Reverse engineering, quality metrics and software documentation tools from Imagix help software developers significantly improve their productivity as they work with complex or legacy software.
Pick up a demo copy of the Imagix reverse engineering, quality analysis and documentation tool, and see for yourself how it reduces the time you spend studying legacy code.
Our solution for C and C++ developers, Imagix 4D, helps you reverse engineer software that is large, complex, unfamiliar or old, by automating the analysis and browsing of your code.
www.imagix.com   (197 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering of Software
Reverse engineering is common in the auto industry where automobile companies purchase a product made by a competitor and disassemble it to examine how the welds, seals and components of the vehicle are put together.
"Reverse engineering" is the term usually used for taking apart a commercial product to see how it works so that such information can be used to develop another product.
In the United States, reverse engineering would be permitted where there is no agreement to prohibit it.
www.jurisdiction.com /reverse.htm   (236 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering refers to the process of reconstructing 3D models from basic point and polyline input data.
Don't spend a lot of money on reverse engineering software where the final result is a 3D model that you can view on the screen, but you can't do anything with.
This user-controlled process gives you the best fit in a form that can be edited and modified after the fit is completed.
www.pilot3d.com /rev_engr.htm   (485 words)

  
 Program Transformation Wiki / Reverse Engineering
Observe that reverse engineering is a process of examination only: the software system under consideration is not modified (which would make it ReEngineering).
The Domesday Book project in which reverse engineering is applied to emulate equipment in order to read data stored on obsolete video disks.
The Reverse Engineering Group at Georgia Tech includes links to many other research institutions around the world.
www.program-transformation.org /Transform/ReverseEngineering   (159 words)

  
 Reverse engineering, legacy code and software maintenance - related sites
Reverse engineering, program comprehension, legacy code and software maintenance are the focus of a number of professional organizations and academic research groups.
Reverse Engineering: A Roadmap, including on-line resources from Hausi Muller, et al.
Most reverse engineering techniques and tools require that you have source code available as the primary software artifact.
www.imagix.com /links/reverse_engineering.html   (306 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering is the conversion of information from a low-level format, usually readable only by a computer into a higher level format, which is easily readable by humans.
Typical examples of reverse engineering tools are disassemblers and decompilers, which translate an object file produced by some compiler into an ASCII representation.
Among reverse engineering tools the most useful are decompilers.
www.backerstreet.com /cg/work.htm   (361 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering: The Complete Documentation
An example of reverse engineering code: Hopefully at the end of this small disassembly dump, we will have been able to analyze what is happening in the assembly, and construct a roughly accurate code to go with it.
The idea is that since discussing specific reverse engineering feats is now illegal in many cases, we should then discuss general approaches, so that it is within every motivated user's ability to obtain information locked inside the black box.
This paper is on reverse engineering backdoored binaries on an x86 Linux Operating System.
www.l0t3k.org /programming/docs/reverse   (1279 words)

  
 What is reverse engineering? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
Reverse engineering is common in both hardware and software.
Whether reverse engineering is legal or not depends on who you ask.
Z Corporation: Reverse Engineering - Create full-color prototypes from CAD data in as little as an hour, for about $10.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/R/reverse_engineering.html   (127 words)

  
 reverse engineering from FOLDOC
Reverse engineering is usually undertaken in order to redesign the system for better maintainability or to produce a copy of a system without access to the design from which it was originally produced.
An integrated circuit might also be reverse engineered by an unscrupulous company wishing to make unlicensed copies of a popular chip.
For example, one might take the executable code of a computer program, run it to study how it behaved with different input and then attempt to write a program oneself which behaved identically (or better).
foldoc.org /?reverse+engineering   (148 words)

  
 Reverse-engineering - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Reverse-engineering
For example, the microchips in the first IBM PCs were reverse engineered by other computer firms to make compatible machines without infringing IBM's copyright.
Reverse Warlock Punch (Super Smash Brothers Melee; gaming)
Companies perform this process on their own products in order to iron out faults, and on their competitors' products in order to find out how they work.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Reverse-engineering   (136 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering the LEGO RCX
Reverse engineering has revealed enough details about the machine that it is now possible to escape the limitations of the standard programming environment.
I was invited to give a one-hour talk on reverse engineering the LEGO RCX for the EE380 seminar at Stanford.
I will also discuss capabilities and limitations, the few areas remaining to be reverse engineered, and development tools that others have been working on.
graphics.stanford.edu /~kekoa/rcx/talk   (392 words)

  
 Better Production - Racing Team Shifts Into Reverse Engineering
Engine builders must adjust for "plate" races, as well, in which restrictor plates are installed between carburetor and manifold to limit flow and reduce power.
But because cylinder heads have such a pronounced effect on engine efficiency and performance, they are one of the most vital components the department produces.
Just like any other engine component, ports must be engineered to match the desired power curve for each race.
www.mmsonline.com /articles/0202bp1.html   (819 words)

  
 Reverse Engineering
Reverse Engineering: The Catalyst Behind the Next Big Aerospace Leap - reverse engineering is the key to conquering the divide between the physical and digital worlds and creating full integration among all facets of the aerospace manufacturing process, Ping Fu, Aerospace Engineering (hosted on Geomagic.com), January 20, 2005
Reverse Engineering With a SolidWorks Interface - in a bid to bring reverse engineering into SolidWorks, applications within the partner program enable the capture of data from an existing part for creating feature based models, Lynda Rutledge, SolidWorks Community, April 19, 2005 (requires free registration)
Reverse Engineering a Lost Culture - little is left of the ancient Samnite culture after the Romans wiped them out but reverse engineering is helping us learn more, Harry Hutchinson, Mechanical Engineering, July 2005
www.caddigest.com /subjects/reverese_eng.htm   (374 words)

  
 Miraplacid : Reverse Engineering
We had several cases where our clients needed reverse engineering for their own systems.
We had to make complete reverse engineering of all the system before we started adding new functionality.
Reverse Engineer is not necessarily a bad guy or a hacker.
www.miraplacid.com /company/re.shtml   (200 words)

  
 reverse
Additional top prizes include two licensed versions of the reverse engineering tool IDA Pro, one free pass to Black Hat Briefings, and a $200 Amazon gift certificate from the fine folks at DataRescue.
The Reverse Challenge is an effort to allow incident handlers around the world to all look at the same binary -- a unique tool captured in the wild -- and to see who can dig the most out of the tool and communicate what they've found in a concise manner.
Identify and explain any techniques in the binary that protect it from being analyzed or reverse engineered.
www.honeynet.org /reverse   (1535 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Reverse Engineering: Books: Linda M. Wills,Philip Newcomb
Reverse Engineering serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most important issues in the field.
Reverse Engineering brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this important area.
Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, and Coding : Reverse Engineering Exploits and Tool Coding for Security Professionals by James C. Foster
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792397568?v=glance   (517 words)

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