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sedatk
22 days ago
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AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
They're not encoded, but the code blocks are shuffled. That's why disassembly does look straightforward, but it used to thwart BinDiff at the time.
j16sdiz
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If I understand correctly, that is just randomness comes from parallel compiling and linking.
If you saying there is a whole step just scrambling blobs, i will be very surprised.
shakna
22 days ago
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That sounds a lot like US9116712, but I don't think its ever been publicly said that Windows does this.
dataflow
22 days ago
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What made you believe this is the case? any examples/links/etc.?
sedatk
22 days ago
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It was a part of our Windows build process when I was at Microsoft. I only assumed that they would keep doing it, but they might have as well dropped the practice.
cstdr
22 days ago
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I don't see how that can be useful when Microsoft publishes debug symbols for almost everything.
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