I don't know how specific you want to be, but the general idea is that
you can't copy the code itself, and those doing the programming must not
have looked at it (or they might be 'tainted').

So the clean room reverse engineering method is to:
1. Take a group of programmers who disassemble the code and document
(meticulously) the OPERATION of the code.  This document cannot be
written in code, but, IIRC, can use flow charts, diagrams, and english
descriptions of the operation of the code being recreated.

2. Give the document to a group of programmers who (and this should be
proveable in court) have in no way been in touch with the code itself or
those who have seen it.  They get to convert the document into code
again, though they still have to carefully avoid any
copyrighted/patented algorithms (which they have to know about).

-Adam

mcu dummies wrote:

> Hi,
>
>Does anybody can give me an idea on the steps of Software reverse engineering?
>
>thanks
>jake
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