Published on: 2025-09-10 00:43:17
Intro In August 2020, we were commissioned by a client with a cache of locked QText documents from the mid 90s - to which he has lost the passcode. QText was a DOS era Hebrew-English word processor written in Turbo Pascal, released 15 or so odd years before neither I nor @Elisha had laid hands on a reverse engineering tool. In this blog post, we’ll describe the process of analyzing the encrypted documents and reverse engineering a DOS program. Hopefully we’ll be a
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