Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderWow, I had a very similar LZSS related experience just a few weeks ago reverse-engineering a VW ECU, although my process didn't end up being as painful. Through luck (and no skill of my own, really), I chose to approach the decompression process by analyzing the data rather than disassembling the decompression routine. LZSS compressed data appears more compressed/garbled as the file goes on as the previous contents of the file are used as the dictionary for compression. LZSS basically…
Author here. This is finally being given as a talk by me tomorrow at 37C3. I've wanted to give this as a talk for many years at CCC, but CCC's long hiatus got in the way. This will be my first time at CCC. If anyone attending 37C3 wants to talk more about this, or anything else, or about open source firmware/owner control in general, don't hesitate to get in touch with me in person or online. I don't have…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 306
- Total comments
- 55
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-17 | Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmwareFirst breakout · Best thread | jandeboevrie | 168 | 34 |
| 2020-08-06 | Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware | Cieplak | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-12-26 | Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmwareLatest 20+ point return | hasheddan | 136 | 21 |