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A project log for Reverse engineering Toshiba R100 BIOS

We are reverse engineering the BIOS and EC firmware of an old laptop in order to create a keygen for their password recovery mechanism.

q3kq3k 12/04/2014 at 09:250 Comments

Still alive! Quick update!

Well, it turned out this TLCS-870 was probably only the power management controller, and a very nice red herring. Whoops.

However, we have some suspicion about a Renesas chip on the board, also a uC, which might be the real embedded controller. We still need to start messing around with it, but we're both out of time, as usual. However, do expect some differential power analysis side channel attack stuff soon. Very soon.

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