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====Forbidden tools==== | ====Forbidden tools==== | ||
- | For the purposes of this project, you are not permitted to use any hex editing tools (hexdump, bvi, etc.) to assist you. Any steps relying in any part on the use of these tools will see credit lost. The aim of this project is to test your low-level data manipulation and calculation skills. | + | For the purposes of this project, you are not permitted to use any hex editing tools (hexdump, bvi, etc.) to assist you in producing the solution. Any steps relying in any part on the use of these tools will see credit lost. The aim of this project is to test your low-level data manipulation and calculation skills. |
You are also forbidden from using any external-to-the-system translation tools (like hex/dec/oct calculators on the web). You must perform any and all calculations using tools on lab46 (and explain your usage of them in your list of instructions!). | You are also forbidden from using any external-to-the-system translation tools (like hex/dec/oct calculators on the web). You must perform any and all calculations using tools on lab46 (and explain your usage of them in your list of instructions!). | ||
- | You can certainly use other tools to help you, so long as they are not hex editors. | + | You can certainly use other tools to help you in better determining your steps to solution. |
====quick dd primer==== | ====quick dd primer==== | ||
Those with little patience and low observation skills are often quick to label **dd** a difficult or weird tool. While it is true that **dd** is no **ls**, it is a powerful tool, quite useful in its particular domain. | Those with little patience and low observation skills are often quick to label **dd** a difficult or weird tool. While it is true that **dd** is no **ls**, it is a powerful tool, quite useful in its particular domain. |