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		hnick on Feb 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse engineering my router's firmware with binw... If there are massive differences with minor changes that can be a clue that the data is compressed or encrypted in some manner. A good test would be if you can name/tag/comment items in the file, you can search for these strings.

ggcdn on Feb 7, 2020 [–]

I don’t think there’s compression or encryption. I can search and find the hex representation of text and values that I expect to be there. I guess I need to bite the bullet and spend some time tagging the parameters I know, then figuring out the pattern of padding that is in between.

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