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Physically auditing the layout of transistors inside a processor made at 22mm process die

What is necessary to check that the layout of all the 35000 transistors on a given physical processor was not tampered with, assuming the normal layout and its dispositions on the die are extensively ...
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What are the best practice methods for documenting research into the reverse engineering of a file format?

I a conduct research requiring the reverse engineering file formats, and I am currently looking at ways of documenting that work. On the web you will find resources that use box diagrams and free ...
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Reverse engineering flexlm license management

I have a 3D driver from the early 90's for Solaris 2.5-2.6 Sparc that uses flexlm to handle license management. How would I go about either circumventing or removing it for computer archeology/hobby ...
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