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I read about it about a year ago. It was about a small program with 4 letters and someone posted 2 blog posts about it in a weeks time abusing the tool to see w
by hetspookjee 8y ago
I read about it about a year ago. It was about a small program with 4 letters and someone posted 2 blog posts about it in a weeks time abusing the tool to see what it can come up with. The tool or program seemed to have an exploitative nature and seemed to be used in the security field. It worked with, I think binary files, but I recall it also allowed other programs to be ran on it. You provided an exit state and an input state and the program it needs to work with and tried all sorts of things within the provided program to reach the provided exit state. The blog post abused it to optimise to something interesting which I can't recall anymore. The writer of the blog post had more experience with it and already liked to toy around with it. It's not angr.
Iirc it 2as called something like nmap or jobn. Something with 4 letters and not the most straightforward name.
Please help me out.
- nlawalker 8y agoSounds like a fuzzer. Was it American Fuzzy Lop (afl-fuzz)? Doesn't quite meet your 4-letter criteria but sounds like a candidate.
- hetspookjee 8y agoYes! Thank you. No wonder I wasn't able to find it as I strongly held my belief that it was 4 letters. Love this place.
- 3131s 8y agoIt's odd how a word can feel "on the tip of your tongue" and intuitions about its number of sounds and their characteristics can be remarkably accurate, especially if you consider the interposition of linguistically similar sounds. And it can be totally misleading when your memories are incorrect, to the point for me at least of making it nearly impossible to recall a word until I have shifted focus to something else.