Author: P L Patodia
Date: 07:05:24 01/28/06
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On January 28, 2006 at 07:59:03, Uri Blass wrote: >I wonder if there can be some program to detect clones based on the exe files. > >The program does not have to be 100% correct and even detecting part of the >clones is good. > >I remember that there is already a program that help to detect clones based on >source codes and by reverse engineering it should be possible to translate exe >files to source code so I think that the natural step is to have a program that >detects clones automatically for people like Leo by comparing the sources of the >programs that he is using. > >If there is going to be a program that can detect all the clones that were >detected until today and does not have false clone detection by comparing >different free source code programs that are not clones then it is going to be >good. > >Uri It is extremely difficult to write a program which can detect clones based on the exe files. If you compile same program using different compilers, you will get different exe. Then it is also possible to compress the exe. So, it is easy to create a very different exe by changing few lines and using different compiler. The key difficulty is reverse engineering from exe to source. Though there are certain tools which can help in reverse engineering, it is only human mind which can really do this. I just give reference of one such tool here: http://www.backerstreet.com/rec/rec.htm Panna
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