in reply to Re^6: Interpreting Assembly
in thread Interpreting Assembly

> I still don't really get, how a program consisting of only mov instructions can work.

I didn't look into the concrete implementation but...

In the assembler I used JMP was basically just a MOV into the PC register.

And any arithmetic calculation can be simulated with lookup tables.

So what's left?

> But this seems perfect

From an academic point of view ... ;)

Honestly it shouldn't be too difficult to decode once the approach is obvious.

And security by obscurity is not a very strong approach.

Cheers Rolf
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