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It's good to be reminded that the state of the art WRT program stability has improved, though it's nearly 30 years later and things still aren't "perfect"... al
by jepler 9y ago
It's good to be reminded that the state of the art WRT program stability has improved, though it's nearly 30 years later and things still aren't "perfect"... also, I didn't realize "fuzzing" as a term was 30 years old.
- nickpsecurity 9y agoI remember someone saying in another article they did it in the 1950's by taking piles of punch cards out of the trash to run through programs. Probably earliest example.
- simplicio 9y agoBarton Miller (one of the authors of the linked pdf) coined the term (though I'm sure the practice predates him.)
- maxxxxx 9y ago"I didn't realize "fuzzing" as a term was 30 years old." When you read papers from the 60s, 70s and 80s it's amazing how many things we think are new today have already been discussed back then.
- pjmlp 9y agoIncluding safer systems programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems