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Break Me00 The MoVfuscator Turning mov into a soul crushing RE nightmare Christopher Domas

Adrian Crenshaw · Sep 25, 2015 · 46m 19s

What this video covers

Christopher Domas's Derbycon 2015 talk on the M/o/Vfuscator, a compiler that emits only x86 mov instructions, showing mov is Turing complete. It explains how a full machine is built from mov and why the output is a nightmare to reverse engineer.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN calls it a legendary, clearly explained hacker talk whenever mov-only computing or anti-decompilation comes up.

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Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“I cannot recommend this Blackhat talk highly enough”

“the original conference talk on the Movfuscator is excellent”

“Christopher Domas's conference talk on the movfuscator is legendary”

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