TKermitFTP

[Tom Jennings]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, John Foust wrote:

> If the program binary sent over the serial line didn't include
> any characters that were eaten or rejected by COPY, and it
> ended with a CTRL/Z and COPY stopped there, it would work,
> wouldn't it?
>
> This reminds me of the constraints on today's exploits and code
> injection techniques: "write a series of three progressive
> exploits and loaders that fit in 64, 256 and 512 bytes,
> respectively, and do not contain any zeroes."

That sounds a bit much for the task at hand... !


> At 02:37 PM 1/3/2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
>> Hell, with debug you could WRITE the program to input the file
>> in binary!  We're talking MSDOS, right? Not Windows?
>> You can type this crap directly into debug, "aXXXX".
>
> Go for it, Skippy!  When it's debugged and tested, ship it!  :-)
> As the hex to enter into DEBUG.

debug will assemble for you! It jsut won't do symbols.

I am surprised that no one pointed out that the input, store, incremnt
could more easily be done by:

 	mov dx, DATAPORT
 	...

 	es:insb
 	djnz label

>
> You're right - the program for this would be small enough to
> fit in the margin of a FAQ.  "Load and run from the serial port."
>
> - John
>