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		enragedcacti on Sept 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020) For anyone else needing to tackle something like this, its definitely worth checking out Binwalk [1]. It is meant for extracting firmware but it works decently well on most files-in-files type data formats. [1] https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk

bouk on Sept 13, 2021 [–]

This was my first instinct as well! Running binwalk on the binary dictionary file immediately outputs that it's a series of zlib-compressed values.

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