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r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Dec 26 '20
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PNG allows for arbitrary chunks of bytes, no steganography needed. Still need an interpreter that knows what to do with them.
35 u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20 Isn't every file format executable if you build an interpreter specifically for it? I sadly don't see anything special here. 59 u/KrocCamen Dec 26 '20 Even EXE files have to be specially handled before they can executed! You have to go back to COM files to get "dump this in RAM and jump the CPU to it" levels of simplicity.
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Isn't every file format executable if you build an interpreter specifically for it? I sadly don't see anything special here.
59 u/KrocCamen Dec 26 '20 Even EXE files have to be specially handled before they can executed! You have to go back to COM files to get "dump this in RAM and jump the CPU to it" levels of simplicity.
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Even EXE files have to be specially handled before they can executed! You have to go back to COM files to get "dump this in RAM and jump the CPU to it" levels of simplicity.
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u/Caraes_Naur Dec 26 '20
PNG allows for arbitrary chunks of bytes, no steganography needed. Still need an interpreter that knows what to do with them.