A Codex-friendly reverse-engineering workflow breaks binaries into solvable puzzles
yacineMTB · x · 2026-07-28
A reply describes a reverse-engineering workflow that is especially suited to Codex: split the binary into functions, identify the exact compiler version, solve each part as a puzzle, handle linking, and then round-trip back to the original executable.
The author says this approach is much slower—about 10× longer—but if it works, it yields a plausible and verifiable reconstruction of the source shape, making it feel like an "autoresearch" style problem.
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