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Proposer

Adam Sampson

Title

Retrocomputing support for Radare

Goal

Add support for historical architectures to the Radare reverse-engineering tool

Description

Radare is a suite of tools for reverse-engineering software - for example, automatically extracting a structured disassembly from a binary. It supports a range of modern architectures, but it would also be useful to apply it to code used on historical computer architectures - for example, when understanding the code as part of a computing history project, or when porting it to a new platform. I'd be particularly interested in support for the Motorola 68000 architecture (a 16/32-bit architecture widely used in the 1980s) and DEC PDP-10 architecture (a 36-bit architecture commonly used in the 1970s), but other architecture - e.g. various IBM mainframes - would also be interesting.

Resources

Background

Url

External Link

Difficulty Level

High

Ethical Approval

None

Number Of Students

1

Supervisor

Adam Sampson

Keywords

reverse engineering, security, cpu, history

Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems
Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
Master of Science in Computer Science for Cyber Security
Master of Science in Computing (2 Years)
Master of Science in Information Technology (Software Systems)
Master of Science in Network Security
Master of Science in Software Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Computing Science
Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Cyber Security)