Cost estimate

Setting up test hardware and software:                           2 h     $   67.30

Reverse Engineering
  Background research:                            3 h                    $  100.95
  Disassembly and identification of system calls: 3 h                    $  100.95
  Decompiling and replacing standard C library:  15 h                    $  504.75
  Analysis with gdb:                              2 h                    $   67.30
  Interpreting and rewriting C code:             20 h                    $  673.00
  Subtotal Reverse Engineering:                                 43 h    ($1,446.94)

Network tests:                                                   3 h     $  100.95

Writing decoder:                                                10 h     $  336.50

Analyzing capabilities of binary:                                6 h     $  201.90

Meetings and briefings: 4 h times 5 people present on average = 20 h     $  673.00

Preparing advisories:                                            2 h     $   67.30
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Total hours     :     86

Cost / h        : $   33.65

Total           : $2,893.90

Benefits @ 28%  : $  810.29

Total Labor Cost: $3,704.19
All investigators are graduate students in computer science, specializing in computer security. They all have a solid programming background. The amount of UNIX network programming knowledge varies. Nobody had ever done any reverse engineering before.