[fuzzing] Hey all

Sergio 'shadown' Alvarez shadown at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 13:29:02 CDT 2008


Hi *,

Just to make the long story short.
If you mean fuzzing as following an RFC implement the specs as they 
should be and so, then that is the something similar to perform a decent 
Unitesting or Algorithm/Function testing, that would be so easy that I 
think a 'Certification' is waaaaay to much.
Now, if you talk about fuzzing as it should be: Taking a target 
application, combining reverse engineering to make your fuzzer cover all 
the possible path-flows (not just code coverage) and instrument your 
fuzzer to target specific areas. In that case fuzzing would be: 
Fuzzing+Reverse Engineering+Runtime Analysis. To cover that the skills 
level is waaay superior to the previous one.
Then you get into the RE field...so please don't come with something 
like, reverse engineering certifications....because it's so huge that 
only very few guys are real authorities to talk about it.
That said, fuzzing is JUST ONE PART of the whole 'application 
pentesting/auditing', where proper skills level and creativity are needed.

So, no, I don't think fuzzing is certifiable, and I'm sure a lot of 
people agree with me.

Cheers,
   Sergio


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