Our journey approaches its end. However, it is important to make it clear that this book only covers the tip of the iceberg called Assembly programming and there is much more to learn ahead of you. The main idea of this book is to show you how powerful and easy it is to create software in Assembly language and how portable and convenient it may be.

There are a few topics that we have not touched over the course of the book, but which, nevertheless, deserve attention. One such topic is how we can keep our code protected from sneaky eyes. We will shortly see how some of the methods of protecting our code may be implemented by means of the Flat Assembler, without the need for third-party software.

Another topic, which in my eyes, is interesting and deserves some coverage, is how to write code that would be executed in kernel space. We will implement a small loadable...