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Metric Sampling Shenanigans

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Published: October 28, 2025 00:00

I'm working on building new benchmarking tools for fuzzing. As part of this, we need to snuff out potential sources of measurement bias. One such source is described in 3.6.2 of the fuzzer evaluation guidelines, but I thought I'd reiterate it here with an…

What the hell are we doing?

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Published: October 26, 2025 00:00

I have come to realise---or rather, I have become more and more convinced that---fuzzing research has stalled not because we have no further contributions to make, but because the contributions that we are making are either incremental and merely sound…

Statement on Human Dignity

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Published: September 20, 2025 00:00

Most of my comments here are US-centric, but apply to other countries I've grown up in, too. Below are some things that shouldn't need to be said, but for some reason, we do. Transgender people deserve to exist. This conquest against transgender people is…

Recently

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Published: September 17, 2025 00:00

Trying out the recently pattern for writing blog posts. Don't know how often I'll post like this, but it won't be visible to anyone but RSS subscribers. These will likely be a mix of scientific, (lightly) political, and utterly unrelated thoughts. If you…

A brief consideration of input shapes

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Published: August 14, 2025 00:00

Previously [1, 2, 3], I've talked about the effects of what I call the "reinterpretation problem". This effect, known also as the havoc effect, is characterised by a reinterpretation of input segments as a result of a mutation. Think of a sequence of…

Acknowledging Acknowledgement: The Havoc Effect

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Published: June 8, 2025 00:00

Recently, I was made aware of a paper in which I was acknowledged. This came as quite a surprise; I had only spoken with this group as a single email following a post on secret.club. In essence, Leo (i.e., Ao Li from the paper) reached out as we had quite…

SBFT'25: Fuzzing Competition Results

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Published: April 29, 2025 00:00

This was a presentation offered at the Search-Based and Fuzz Testing Workshop in 2025. SBFT'25 slides provided here. The recording of this presentation is not yet available. Abstract Following the SBFT fuzzing competition, the results were analyzed and a…

TAMU Cybersecurity Club: Security Reserch in Academia

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Published: April 2, 2025 00:00

Video is not available as the presentation was provided privately. Presentation slides are available on Google Slides. Some formatting is incorrect due to a change of software. Abstract The club often hears about public sector, military, and industrial…

Playing with Brownian Motion

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Published: January 7, 2025 00:00

This page is a stub; it exists solely for testing at the moment while I write the rest of it. Feel free to play with the thing below, though: Loading WebAssembly... Pitch: Yaw: Iterations: Seed: Noise: …

Why I don't write exploits*

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Published: October 6, 2024 00:00

In the past year, we've had a few discussions in my research group about joining various competitions, such as AIxCC, Pwn2Own, and others. These competitions are testing grounds for many of our research topics, as our research group primarily focuses on…