The use of debuggers to analyse malicious or otherwise unknown binaries has become a requirement for reverse engineering executables to help determine their purpose. While researchers in places such as anti-virus laboratories have always done this, with the availability of free and easy to use debuggers it has also become popular with corporate security ...

The formal definition of a code is this: a code of length n is a subset of all possible strings, or vectors, of n symbols (chosen from some alphabet, which will often be {0,1}), which has the property that every two members of the subset (i.e., codewords) ...