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I do love kaitai and recently contributed a grammar, but both the title and the copy talk about writing. > Reading and writing binary formats is hard... Kaitai Struct tries to make this job easier... Kaitai cannot write data back out. [1] This is a major limitation for me. It would be nice to use it as a mutation engine for fuzzing, but without being able to write it back out, it is mostly just beneficial for analysi…
This is very interesting, but just curious, when would you use something like this versus, say, protobufs?
If I understand it correctly, katai generates for you the reader as well, while protobuf generates only the data container. Katai is more a sort of protobuf + grpc for reading data.
gRPC is an RPC framework that uses Protobufs.
I do love kaitai and recently contributed a grammar, but both the title and the copy talk about writing. > Reading and writing binary formats is hard... Kaitai Struct tries to make this job easier... Kaitai cannot write data back out. [1] This is a major limitation for me. It would be nice to use it as a mutation engine for fuzzing, but without being able to write it back out, it is mostly just beneficial for analysi…
Yikes, huge limitation. Guess I won't be looking into this any further.
This is very interesting, but just curious, when would you use something like this versus, say, protobufs?
I do love kaitai and recently contributed a grammar, but both the title and the copy talk about writing. > Reading and writing binary formats is hard... Kaitai Struct tries to make this job easier... Kaitai cannot write data back out. [1] This is a major limitation for me. It would be nice to use it as a mutation engine for fuzzing, but without being able to write it back out, it is mostly just beneficial for analysi…
Any other lib that also generates Encoder/Writer code?
https://construct.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#exampl...
I’ve long searched for something better than Construct, but so far I have yet to find even an equal.
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Yikes, huge limitation. Guess I won't be looking into this any further.
It would be a CS breakthrough if it could... You're asking a lot...
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Yikes, huge limitation. Guess I won't be looking into this any further.
It would be a CS breakthrough if it could... You're asking a lot...
ASN.1 does more or less what I was hoping Kaitai can do. Where's the breakthrough?
I just want to be able to describe network protocols in some "language" and generate code that can serialize/deserialize it.
Recently I learned about some pretty cool work using it with respect to high-energy physics: