Subj : unbaja
To   : Deuce
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 09:39 am

  Re: unbaja
  By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Sun Sep 11 2005 23:31:00

 >  > Trouble is, it is a one-to-many relationship too!
 > 
 > But, you're only interested in one of them... probobly the shortest one.  Be
 > a one-to-many relationship doesn't hurt anything... since if you have such a
 > table, you're most likely only interested in cuplicating the CRC32, not
 > recovering the data.
 > 
 > For example, to "retrieve" a password.

Ok, but for the purpose of unbaja, we are looking to determine the 
variable name (one of the many) to match the CRC32 (the one).  Let us say 
the original programmer creates a variable called "USERNAME" which 
generates a CRC32 of 3e6d9a3b.  Due to the one-to-many nature of the 
reverse lookup, we might decompile that variable name back to "_J_OL3" 
which is (isn't actually, but pretend) another one of the many, but the 
*wrong* one for our purposes.



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