Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of StructuredBinaryData

Timestamp:

2012-05-06T04:39:59Z (12 years ago)

Author:

Sean Bartell

Comment:

add a few tools and an outline

StructuredBinaryData

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 = Structured Binary Data =
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+[[PageOutline(2-3)]]
 
 This page will document my thoughts and design ideas for the structured binary
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 TODO: looks promising.
 
-=== [http://wsgd.free.fr/index.html Wireshark Generic Dissector] ===
+=== [http://wsgd.free.fr/ Wireshark Generic Dissector] ===
 
 The length and real value of a field can depend on all previous fields and use
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   depend on a previous value. Also has an on‐line database of structures, but
   it isn’t very popular—there are only nine submissions!
- [http://ff-extractor.sourceforge.net/ ffe]::
-  Only the simplest structures.
+ Other simple formats::
+  [http://ff-extractor.sourceforge.net/ ffe] can only handle trivial
+  structures. [http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html Python’s struct]
+  and [https://github.com/ToxicFrog/vstruct VStruct] use concise string formats
+  to describe simple structures.
  Other hex editors::
   [http://beye.sourceforge.net/ Beye], [http://home.gna.org/bless/ Bless], and
   [https://live.gnome.org/Ghex GHex] lack interesting features.
+ Protocol definition formats::
+  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Syntax_Notation_One ASN.1],
+  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Interface_Definition_Language MIDL],
+  and other IPC implementations go in the other direction: they generate a
+  binary format from a text description of a structure. ASN.1 in particular
+  has many features.