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SgrA

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Registered: 2011-06-08

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Code in unknown language?

Hello,

    I'm working with an secondary ARM bootloader from Huawei "oemsbl.img" for a phone that comes with a locked bootloader. I was going through the output of strings oemsbl.img, and towards the end, I found this:

   & 
/ 1 2 0 
" $ : < ! # 9 ; 
* % 

I'm wondering if it is some code in some language. I wouldn't expect it to be any mainstream language, but it is likely that it takes at least 3 inputs and produces one output.

If anyone has any idea what code it could be, or any general suggestion, please reply!

Thanks!

Last edited by SgrA (2013-02-22 01:51:27)

ngoonee

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Re: Code in unknown language?

Considering the total lack of duplication of characters, what makes  you think its code at all? Looks to me like a list of characters....

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SgrA

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Registered: 2011-06-08

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Re: Code in unknown language?

J code that I have seen in the past did look similar, and then there are esoteric languages too, so I wondered.  I disassembled the file, and turns out that in ASM, they are strings.

Last edited by SgrA (2013-02-22 01:54:12)

Trilby

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Re: Code in unknown language?

That was the output of `strings`?  You do know what strings does, don't you?  Why on earth would you expect it to be code?

Absent of this negative-indicating context, the only code that resembles is Brainf***

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Trilby

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Re: Code in unknown language?

JI disassembled the file, and turns out that in ASM, they are strings.

Ah, yeah.  That's why `strings` showed them.

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