hi on wed NUMBER sep NUMBER yannick gingras wrote btw thanks for all of you who provided interestiong insight i m playing with gdb s dissassembler now but i don t think it s what a typical cracker would use any hints on unix cracking tools there s also an objdump program and biew hex viewer disassembler a good starting point to search is URL however cracking and reverse engineering tools are not so ubiquitous on unix as they are on windows platform for two main reasons NUMBER the main customers of commercial unices solaris hp ux aix sco are respectable companies they are ready to pay big bucks for software they need the reputation matters NUMBER most software for free and open source unices like linux and xbsd this software often may be used on commercial unices as well is well free and open source regards artem artem frolov frolov ispras ru software engineer system administrator institute for system programming russian academy of sciences tel NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER ext NUMBER cellular NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER cNUMBER NUMBER ca NUMBER NUMBERa NUMBER NUMBER dNUMBER NUMBER NUMBER df NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERd NUMBERa aNUMBER NUMBER NUMBERb NUMBER basic definitions of science if it s green or wiggles it s biology if it stinks it s chemistry if it doesn t work it s physics 