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Intro to x86 Assembly (Xeno Kovah)

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2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2019–2020 · score 1.5

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A free introductory course on x86 assembly language taught by Xeno Kovah through OpenSecurityTraining, originally delivered as workshops for security researchers. It covers reading and understanding x86 assembly code for security work.

Commenters say Xeno Kovah's OpenSecurityTraining courses were really great for learning x86 and call them excellent for learning assembly, despite some poor audio quality.

Programming Languagesbeginnerfreevideo lectures#x86#assembly#reverse engineering#kovah#security training

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  1. Strongly recommendsvips7L2020in “Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?”

    Not x86_64 but Xeno Kovah's courses were really great to teach me x86:

    http://opensecuritytraining.info/IntroX86.html

  2. Strongly recommendsvips7L2019in “x86 Assembly Guide (2018)”

    Xeno Kovah's courses [0] are excellent for learning assembly.

    [0] http://opensecuritytraining.info/

  3. Recommendsbarbecue_sauce2020in “Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 assembly?”

    I also recommend Xeno Kovah's OpenSecurityTraining courses on YouTube, some of which are specifically dedicated to assembly. The audio quality can sometimes be pretty bad, but the information is good. Though they try to obfuscate things a little bit, these are clearly workshops given to researchers at Mitre, the CVE project maintainer.

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