= <JAR> reverse engineering by quat1024
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The most advanced reverse engineering effort prior to Codex had been by https://github.com/quat1024[GitHub user quat1024], an undergratuate student at Ohio State University, https://modrinth.com/user/quat[Minecraft modding extraordinaire] and https://highlysuspect.agency/photos/[furry afficionado]. Minecraft is written in Java, which may partly explains his Java skills.
* https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/203
* https://notes.highlysuspect.agency/cia-jars.html
He managed to deobfuscate the strings present inthe JARs using Enigma, possibly https://github.com/FabricMC/Enigma[], a Java reverse engineering tool. Cool findings on https://web.archive.org/web/20110208072027/http://newsupdatesite.com/update.jar include:
* `applet.configs1` deobfuscated contains a date:
``
Fri Feb 05 12:04:29 EST 2010
``
Also cool is the present of a timeszone, "EST" unsurprisingly.
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