The Security Shoggoth on Room362.com
September 11th, 2008 Tom Posted in Security Justice News |
Tyler, one of the co-hosts of the Security Justice Podcast (aka: The Security Shoggoth), put together a very good guest post on Room362.com all about runtime “packers”. What are these mystical creatures you ask?
Via Room362.com:
“A packer, also known as a run time packer, is a program which compresses another executable to a smaller size on disk. When executed, the packed executable is uncompressed in memory and executes. The time to uncompress the executable in memory is usually not noticeable, making it very advantageous to use one.”
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