CyberChef: What the GCHQ Tool Does, How Recipes Work and Offline Use
Post on: May 23, 2023
CyberChef is a free, open-source web app from GCHQ (the UK’s signals intelligence and cyber security agency) for encoding, decoding,
Read MoreShort technical reference notes used across Ambimat’s engineering documentation – data representation, file formats and developer tooling.
Big Endian vs Little Endian: Understanding Byte Order
Post on: May 23, 2023
Endianness in one minute A 32-bit integer such as 0x12345678 is one number, but memory, flash, a file or a
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Mac Basics
Post on: May 19, 2023
Dear Readers, Get to know the Mac desktop, At the top of the screen is the menu bar and at the bottom
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How to Parse BER-TLV Data in JavaScript
Post on: May 16, 2023
Smart-card data very often reaches your code as BER-TLV: a run of bytes in which every field announces what it
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Bits and Bytes
Post on: May 16, 2023
Dear Readers, At the smallest scale in the computer, information is stored as bits and bytes. In this section, we’ll
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.ipa [File Format]
Post on: May 16, 2023
Dear Reader, An .ipa file is an iOS and iPadOS application archive file which stores an iOS/iPadOS app. Each .ipa
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