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Hello tptacek,

I am really interested in knowing how you reached your conclusions based on seeing the js file. I am quite new to analysing the source files of a given website using the firefox web console. I tried copying it to a text editor but, man, it was a mess to read. Any pointers as to how I might proceed ?

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You'd have better luck analyzing the source rather than the minified output. Relevant code is here: https://github.com/seripap/darkwire-client/blob/master/src/u...

Dear Alanfriedman,

Thank you. I will look into this.

However, in this case, I can analyze the source now because it is available to me. What should I do when the source isn't available ? How do I proceed when all I have is the 'minified output'?

You can try to prettify/beautify (something like http://jsbeautifier.org/), but the output can still be hard to read. If you're looking to learn how to build a particular feature that's closed-source, I'd recommend trying to build something similar yourself using tutorials or an open-source analog.

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