Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering is a generic term for any kind of work "backwards" from a finished form to uncover the details of its originating / producing process. Reverse engineering has been used in the Free software community to add support to author and manipulate file formats in proprietary formats.

Resources

• Presentation at Media Lab PRADO by "Reverse Engineers" Fridrich Strba and Valentin Filippov
• re-lab project to reverse engineer various graphics formats
• Masterclass with topic "Software protection against reverse engineering"