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		sp332 on Feb 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stuxnet is now on GitHub You could compile the decompiled code with an optimizing compiler, then decompile that, or use GCC's C backend, or something to automatically simplify the program?

mukyu on Feb 13, 2011 [–]

No. There is just too much information lost going from source to binary and when you use optimization the results are more information lost, not less.

The idea works well enough if you just want get optimized asm though. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4096.en.h...

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