New Version of PDFResurrect... Now with enhanced EOF locating.

The title, while any computer scientist will immediately think is a joke... is in-fact not a joke. The latest release (Version 0.12) is a bug fix release and is now available here. The main fix regards how the tool was locating the EOF token that PDF writing utilities place at the end of different versions of PDFs. Previously, if an EOF token was split across a 256-byte boundary, then Mr. Resurrect would not have found it. The new algorithm might be a tad slower; however, it is more precise.

-Matt

Ruxmon Talk

So I was given the chance to speak at the monthly Ruxmon security lectures here in Melbourne. While many people were off at Blackhat and Defcon this month, the room we were in was packed. In fact, I would say about 45-50 or so humans showed up! It was a blast, and I feel my communication went well. The talk I gave was on PDFs, PostScript, the security concerns of these data formats/languages, and the PDFResurrect. The slides I have posted here.

-Matt

New version of PDFResurrect

Wow! It has been just over 2 years since I last updated PDFResurrect. I made a few bug fixes and added in some makefile and configure patches from the Debian maintainer, Francois Marier. Exciting blog post you say?! YEAAAAAH YAAAAA! And special thanks to 757labs and especially to Jody for fixing some wiki issues.
-Matt