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Aaron R. Reynolds apparently had the obsession with hiding a signature in his code (like the AARD one being referred to here). Other places where you stumble a
by st_goliath 6y ago
Aaron R. Reynolds apparently had the obsession with hiding a signature in his code (like the AARD one being referred to here).
Other places where you stumble across the name include e.g. FAT32 which has a filesystem information sector[1] in the hidden region after the boot sector which includes similar signatures (AaRR and aArr, byte swapped to little endian of course).
[1] https://wiki.osdev.org/FAT32#FSInfo_Structure_.28FAT32_only.29 https://wiki.osdev.org/FAT32#FSInfo_Structure_.28FAT32_only....
- lavp 6y ago> AaRR and aArr, byte swapped to little endian of course Maybe my understanding of endianness is off but isn’t it AaRR -> RRAa?
- st_goliath 6y agoSure, I didn't mean to say that one is the byte swapped version of the other, but that those are two distinct signatures which are written to disk, both of course byte swapped (to RRaA and rrAa, respectively).