The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets LLMs call external tools, and for reverse engineers the obvious application is connecting an...
Reverse engineering
Mar 25, 2026
PSpice is a SPICE circuit simulator from Cadence Design Systems that encrypts proprietary semiconductor model files to protect vendor IP...
Security research
Mar 18, 2026
As 2022 ends, so does my APFS Advent Challenge. Deciding at the last minute to write this series of blogs...
Meta
Dec 30, 2022
As we discussed in an earlier post, Apple’s Fusion Drives combine the storage capacity of a hard disk drive (HDD)...
APFS Internals · Part 18
Dec 29, 2022
Our previous post covered how Object Maps facilitate the implementation of point-in-time Snapshots of APFS file systems by preserving File...
APFS Internals · Part 17
Dec 28, 2022
Now that we know how to parse the File System Tree, analyze keybags, and unwrap decryption keys, it’s time to...
APFS Internals · Part 16
Dec 26, 2022
This is a quick update to yesterday’s post on using std::experimental::simd to speed up APFS Fletcher-64 calculations. It turns out...
High performance computing
Dec 24, 2022
Today’s post will take on a bit of a different style than the previous posts in this series. Among other...
File systems
Dec 23, 2022
In our last post, we discussed both Volume and Container Keybags and how they protect wrapped Volume Encryption and Key...
APFS Internals · Part 15
Dec 22, 2022