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> It used to be you could email a patch to someone and that patch would get reviewed and committed. Yes, but 1990 is also when this study came out: https://ft
by ekiwi 6y ago
> It used to be you could email a patch to someone and that patch would get reviewed and committed.
Yes, but 1990 is also when this study came out: https://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/par-distr-sys/technical_papers/fuzz.pdf https://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/par-distr-sys/technical_papers/fuzz....
They find that a lot of UNIX tools could be easily crashed by generating random inputs. The quality of our most popular open source software has dramatically improved over the last 30 years.
- pjmlp 6y agoCheck the updated version of that paper, it hardly changed in 30 years. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348025458_The_Relevance_of_Classic_Fuzz_Testing_Have_We_Solved_This_One https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348025458_The_Relev...