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Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures
I can't claim credit for the API and reverse engineering of the data model (https://github.com/0Liam/smm2-documentation), standing on the shoulder of giants here. But the original level viewer was a windows app (there are since a handful of web ports of it); it seemed like an opportunity to learn a few technologies (Rust, WASM). There were a lot of interesting problems, i'll do a proper write-up one day.
Kaitai Struct
- Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
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Parsing an Undocumented File Format
- ImHex [2], which has a pattern language [3] which allows parsing, and it seems more powerful than what Kaitai offers. I stumbled upon some limitations with it but it was still useful.
[1]: https://kaitai.io/
- Kaitai Struct – a declarative language used to describe binary data structures
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HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
Beautiful. Didn't know something like this exists. Reminds me of Katai[0]
[0]. https://kaitai.io/
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Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
An EDID override like this would be helpful for macOS as well, where the monitors swapping around after standby is a real annoyance [0] [1]
EDID rewrites are 99% of the time blocked by the monitor firmware: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Decoding-monitor-EDID-on-macO...
By the way, one helpful tool that helped me navigate the EDID dump was Kaitai Struct [2]. It shows a side by side view with the hex view and the EDID structure, and it highlights the hex values in real time as you navigate the structure. Unfortunately [3] it doesn't support the extension blocks that the author needs.
[0] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird-monitor-bugs
[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/external-displays-swapp...
[2] https://kaitai.io/
[3] https://github.com/kaitai-io/edid.ksy
- Kaitai Struct: new way to develop parsers for binary structures
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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Kaitai Struct might be a good choice for that: https://kaitai.io/
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Ingesting, parsing and making sense of device log data
For binary log format, there's the excellent Kaitai Struct frameworks, that make it very easy to generate parsers from a declarative schema
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What is this tool? More info in comments
kaitai
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Visual Programming with Elixir: Learning to Write Binary Parsers (2019)
https://kaitai.io/
Worth a look if you are writing binary parsers.
What are some alternatives?
binrw - A Rust crate for helping parse and rebuild binary data using ✨macro magic✨.
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
FortniteReplayDecompressor - Read Fortnite replay files
csvkit - A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
restruct - Rich binary (de)serialization library for Golang
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
hachoir - Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field
tablib - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
nom - Rust parser combinator framework
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
Grammars - Grammars for Synalyze It! and Hexinator
PyYAML