Reverse Engineerers?

[Flushie]

Alright, so I am reading the "IDA unofficial guide" book, I am also reading parts of "Secrets of Reverse Engineering", these are a couple of the books I am reading, I am learning about stack, and what not, but where can I learn about putting it all to use, I mean I am learning the pieces, and hopefully one day I can make something slightly respectable, but at this time respect isn't my concern, knowledge is. I know C++ and I can put it to use, I am have checked the "Read these books" section, anyone got any information and/or BOOKS that I should look over?

[The-Eradicator]

If you want to learn reverse engineering, i'd say the best thing you can do is reverse software that you wrote yourself in your preferred language.

For example, a console program where you can enter a password. If the password is correct it displays a success message, otherwise a failed message. Practice by getting past the password check in some way.

Perhaps a program that generates random values? Practice by trying to write a separate program to read those values.

Keep writing and reversing more complicated software, until you feel comfortable trying your skills on other people's software.

[Flushie]

Thank you T-E, I appreciate your time to reply to a n00bie I do some Lena151s shit

[jjaa]

Those books teach you the tools and techniques you can use to reverse engineer stuff. Once you know how to use the tools available to you and the basics of a medium level programming language(C++). The rest comes down to knowledge about assembler and practice. Assembler is easy if you know the basics of memory anyway, also with stuff like the hex-rays decompiler, its becoming less important.

And as for reversing you own code. I never got into that, i preferred just doing basic crackmes. (Crackmes.de - Welcome to the longest running and most complete Crackmes web page on the internet.) also check out TiGA's IDA stuff Tuts 4 You: Downloads / IDA Pro Disassembler & Debugger / TiGa 01 - Visual Debugging with IDA (first tutorial).

[Flushie]

Cool shit, I seen the Reverse-engineering.net, I cant seem to find any of the videos on there??

[Tanaris4]

I've also read the 2 books you mentioned, but honestly I got about 150 pages finished in each. Crackmes.de - Welcome to the longest running and most complete Crackmes web page on the internet. is a great resource, then I just started looking @ the windows binary (i do mac reversing) + looking at the functions people have already found to make sense of what is going on