This is the single place where I collect my adventures into ReactOS, Rust, and low-level system software, write about them, and release some tools from time to time.
Hope you find something useful here :)
The next building block for my bootloader project is ready! nt-apiset is a parser written in Rust for the API Set Map files of Windows 10 and later versions.
API Sets are dependencies of PE executables whose names start with “api-” or “ext-”, e.g. api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0. They don’t …
This release was not planned. I actually wanted to write a parser for Windows apiset DLLs, but quickly found myself implementing the umpteenth string type to handle Windows UTF-16 characters. After having done that work once for nt-hive and another time for ntfs, it was time to refactor the common parts into a crate …
Around two months ago, the Team82 research group at Claroty disclosed a critical vulnerability in Siemens current S7-1200/S7-1500 series of PLCs. This is the next issue in a series of recent disclosures on the security of these ubiquitous logic controllers. What’s different this time is the whopping CVSS severity …
I recently attended the first ever EuroRust in Berlin from 13th to 14th October. I have been eagerly looking for such a dedicated European conference on Rust, but my previous Google searches were all in vain - and always ended up here. Glad that’s no longer the case :)
At EuroRust, I had the opportunity to speak …
After the ENLYZE PortSniffer in 2020, I’m glad to announce that another tool I developed at ENLYZE has just been released as open-source.
The ENLYZE S7-Project-Explorer is a Windows application to explore Siemens STEP 7 projects and export a complete PLC variable list as a CSV table. This solves our recurring …
On my quest to develop a ReactOS/Windows bootloader in Rust, I inevitably had to stumble upon the infamous LIST_ENTRY structure used in the LOADER_PARAMETER_BLOCK. This is what Windows, Windows drivers, and components influenced by Windows (e.g. UEFI) have been using for a long time to uniformly handle linked lists.
I …
FOSDEM 2022 has just ended. Despite being an all-virtual event again, it was another awesome conference with a packed schedule full of interesting talks.
I had the honor of speaking about my recent NTFS Rust filesystem crate and the video is now online:
Slides are available here.
Thanks a lot to all volunteers for …
Happy new year everybody! It’s finally time to reveal a project I have been working on over several weekends of the past year. It’s also the next building block on my mission to write a ReactOS/Windows bootloader in Rust.
ntfs is a Rust library that implements the low-level structures of the NTFS …