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Author Archives: Oliver
NATO’s open door policy
Now, while any small town club is able to reject applications for membership and scholarships are tied to preconditions — and ignoring for a minute that NATO even refused to talk about Russia’s security interests, including its unwillingness to accept … Continue reading
Undocumented MSVC
Some ongoing research. For obvious reasons I can only share results and tools, but not actual sample data.
Log build command lines with cl.exe, link.exe and friends
Turns out you can enable detailed logging of the command lines run by MSBuild when building from Visual Studio or the command line. This may not seem like much, until you realize that technically you rarely get to see the … Continue reading
Jetzt wird Farbe bekannt
Mit der Ankündigung Großbritanniens panzerbrechende Munition mit abgereichertem Uran (Englisch “depleted uranium”) an die Ukraine zu liefern — und den quasi nicht existenten medialen Einsprüchen — haben die “Unterstützer” der Kiewer Regierung unter Selenskij Farbe bekannt. Behauptete man bisher noch … Continue reading
Geschichte und Geschichten
Ist schon faszinierend daß die Kubakrise häufig zum Vergleich mit der aktuellen Weltlage — mithin der Beziehung zwischen Rußland und den USA — bemüht wird, jedoch regelmäßig auch hier die “Krise” entsprechend der US-amerikanischen Lesart mit der Stationierung von Raketen … Continue reading
Aiding reproducibility in builds with MS Visual C++
<AdditionalOptions>%(AdditionalOptions) /d1trimfile:”$(SolutionDir)\”</AdditionalOptions> In your .vcxproj file or a Directory.Build.props when passed to the compiler (cl.exe, ClCompile) this should trim the leading path used for __FILE__. The backslash is actually required here, because SolutionDir ends in a backslash itself, but we … Continue reading
Initialization of static variables (reminder)
Nice blog article which I ran across again recently: gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=406 PS: probably also worth a look: Paged Out
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FIDO2 für Kreditkarte (Sparkasse). Aber nicht mit Linux!
Im letzten Jahr hatte ich eine Kreditkarte bei der Sparkasse beantragt — Mastercard war das einzige was im Angebot war, aber gut. Also beantragt und direkt nach Erhalt einmal benutzt. Schon der zweite Versuch ging in die Hose, da aufgrund … Continue reading
Floating point precision … printf-VS2013-vs.-later-VS-version edition
As developers we probably all know that floating point precision can be an issue1. It can haunt us in various ways. Generally when we talk about precision, though, we probably don’t have in mind printf as the first thing. This … Continue reading
Enabling RSA (with SHA-1) again in OpenSSH server
The sshd version that ships with Ubuntu 22.04 seems to have abandoned RSA authentication. Well, that’s not true. It’s about the hash algorithm used by the “old” protocol by the name ssh-rsa, which is deemed insecure by today’s standards. RSA … Continue reading
Bash training I gave some years ago
This is a Bash training I gave some years ago, which I had — however — prepared on my own time. Some parts may be outdated. Others may need some touching up, but in general I think it can be … Continue reading
That trick I learned with the Visual Studio debugger
Alright, I’ll admit it it: I am in team WinDbg. Sure, I’ll happily use WinDbgX — the “Preview” version of the “new” WinDbg which has been in preview for ages now — but I always was a bit unhappy with … Continue reading
IDA and Hex-Rays decompiler keyboard shortcut cheat sheet
Find it on GitHub: assarbad/some-latex/releases/tag/v1.0-ida-cheat-sheet LaTeX source can be found in the repository itself.
Reminder to self: IDA load all sections
Just a reminder to myself. Edit cfg/pe.cfg inside the IDA installation folder to configure the PE loader to load all sections: // Always load all sections of a PE file? // If no, sections like .reloc and .rsrc are skipped … Continue reading
ASR rule “Block Win32 API calls from Office macros”
Microsoft says it’s fixed. It may be, but I think there’s more to it than meets the eye. Colleagues of mine noticed that, aside from shortcuts disappearing, Defender also started acting up on TortoiseProc.exe from TortoiseSVN. Notably, checkouts would fail … Continue reading
dumbin.exe, editbin.exe, lib.exe …
They’re all just slim wrappers around the actual link.exe, not using a common DLL or so, but actually invoking: dumpbin.exe simply invokes “link /dump” and failing that “link.exe link /dump” editbin.exe simply invokes “link /edit” and failing that “link.exe link … Continue reading
What does adding masm targets do under the hood
If in Visual Studio when you right-click a C/C++-project in the Solution Explorer, you choose Build Customizations…, the following dialog will be presented: If you check the item for masm, the following changes will be done to your .vcxproj file: … Continue reading
Certum Open Source Code-Signing certificate
In the past I used a variety of code-signing CAs. But for a few years now I am using Certums affordable offer for Open Source developers. Let’s assume you already have their latest hardware and merely want to renew or … Continue reading
PowerShell
Within the last two years or so I have started to use more and more PowerShell scripting at work and for my private administration tasks on Windows. The thing I find coolest about PowerShell is that you can tap into … Continue reading
Die wohlstandsverwahrloseste Bundesregierung
Sarah Wagenknecht hatte unlängst eine bemerkenswerte und vielbeachtete aber auch viel kritisierte Rede im deutschen Bundestag gehalten. Schon davor hatte eine gewisse Annalena Baerbock — ihres Zeichens oberste Undiplomatin der Bundesregierung — eine Antwort auf Englisch in einer Podiumsdiskussion von … Continue reading