Re: Distributed Reverse Engineering

Mike Melanson <[email protected]> Sun, 22 May 2005 13:03:59 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.codec.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>	BTW, another multimedia hacker examined the code and figured out
>>	that 
>>the weird bit reading function is, in fact, an arithmetic coder.
> 
> 
> I said that already.

	I do not remember that from our correspondence. The only item I could 
find was this:

"Regarding the entropy coding: I named it scrambling, because it uses a
strange pattern to make reverse engineering harder. It may be some range
or cabac coder on the other side, but it doesn't looks like that."

-- 
	-Mike Melanson


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