Mr Edward Barrett

Research Student

Tel:     +44 (0)1227 823822/24 Fax:     +44 (0)1227 762811 Email: eb771@kent.ac.uk

Room SW104 School of Computing University of Kent, CT2 7NF

Publications

None yet.

You can however read my undergraduate dissertation.

PhD Project Summary

Reverse engineering native executable code in the interest of security.

Research Interests

I am a member of the following research groups:

• Programming Languages and Systems Group

I am interested in the following topics:

• Static and dynamic analysis of executable code.
• Reconstruction of control flow graphs.
• Decompilation.
• Obfuscation of executable code.
• Compiler Technology.
• Assembler programming.
• CPU Architecture.
• Operating systems programming.

Projects

I am working on a few academic projects:

• Logic2CNF - Convert propositional logic statements into DIMACS conjunctive normal form for use with a SAT solver.
• MuBuild - A tool to build many binaries using many compilers and disassemblers (using many different optimiser configurations and on many different platforms and architectures).
• Reverse Engineering Playground - My research sandbox. It contains verious test programs, binaries and disassemblies demonstrating various concepts.

In my spare time I work on OpenBSD. If you want to contact me regarding OpenBSD, please use the email address: edd at openbsd dot org, instead of my academic address.