[fuzzing] Do Pictures Help?

[Charles Miller]

Interesting idea.  I had a somewhat related idea a while back on how  
people visually are better at identifying file structures than tools.   
Thus, VisFuzz was born:

http://www.openrce.org/repositories/users/camill8/visfuzz_skin.swf

well, stillborn would be a better verb since I never quite built the  
fuzzing part of it...

Charlie


On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:58 PM, J.M. Seitz wrote:

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> I threw a post up on OpenRCE regarding the usage of a "visual" to
> determine how to best approach fuzzing a file format.
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> http://www.openrce.org/blog/view/922/Visual_Patterns_for_File_Format_Fuzzing
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> Am I way off or could this help target certain spots in a file that  
> are
> best suited for being fuzzed? Would it be useful to have the image
> actually use a legend to show a byte offset range?
>
> Anyways, really looking for some feedback more than anything.
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>
> JS
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