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RETROINGENIERIE [3 records]

Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Life Cycle (Informatics)
CONT

It's relatively easy to buy used equipment on the open market abroad, and reverse engineering - pulling apart a piece of technology to see how it works ... is serviceable enough for Soviet purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cycle de vie (Informatique)
DEF

Ensemble des opérations d’analyse d’un logiciel ou d’un matériel destinées à retrouver le processus de sa conception et de sa fabrication, ainsi que les modalités de son fonctionnement.

OBS

rétro-ingénierie; ingénierie inverse : termes et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 1 janvier 2013.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Systems Analysis (Information Processing)
  • Life Cycle (Informatics)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
DEF

… disassemble and examine … a product or device … to discover the concepts involved in [its] manufacture ...

CONT

… reverse engineering a software product follows a very different process from reverse engineering a pharmaceutical product. However, the intention of both processes is the same—to determine from the finished product the process by which it is made and what goes into that process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Analyse des systèmes informatiques
  • Cycle de vie (Informatique)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
CONT

Analyser un virus pour en déterminer son comportement, ses méthodes de camouflage [ou] ce qu’il fait [...] relève de l’ingénierie inverse. Les laboratoires de chacun des antivirus passent leur vie à faire de l’ingénierie inverse.

Key term(s)
  • faire de la rétroingénierie

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Software
DEF

The process of uncovering the internal workings of executable software without access to its source code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logiciels
DEF

Processus par lequel on retrace le fonctionnement des logiciels exécutables sans accéder à leur code source.

Spanish

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