Addison Crump
Addison Crump
Addison Crump
My name is Addison Crump. I'm a Texas A&M University graduate (class of '21) and currently a Ph.D. candidate at CISPA. I'm also a member of secret.club and a maintainer of LibAFL.
Latest Posts
Returning to Teaching, Uncertain
It has now been several years since I've taught my own classes, or even acted as a tutor. That is to say: I worked with students after the lockdowns for COVID had ended, but...
Times have changed since we were last here. Since then, SSH signing has become popular1, I got some FIDO2 security keys, and post-quantum cryptography has gotten a lot better....
I care quite deeply about scientific communication. Part of the frustration that I hold for how we currently communicate in academia is mostly to do with the stiffness and...
I've updated my website a bit. Visual Changes Those of you who have visited my site will instantly notice that the colours have changed. This is pretty obvious; I prefer the...
This semester marks four years since I stopped teaching high school classes. That means that, in just a few months, nearly all of the students that I would have taught have now...
I am not fond of this recent genenerative AI movement. It is a profound waste of resources, a theft machine masquerading as intelligence, and generally a tool which enables...
I'm having a hard time right now. Since I wrote last, there have been multiple additional reasons for me to be frustrated both with my field and my country, but I am choosing to...
I often suffer from world-weariness. That aching, inescapable feeling that the world is somehow going wrong and there's nothing that I can personally do about it, and the...
39c3: Demystifying Fuzzer Behaviour
Recording. Presentation slides available via Google Slides. Fahrplan entry on CCC website. Blurb Despite how it's often portrayed in blogs, scientific articles, or corporate...
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...
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...
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....
A brief consideration of input shapes
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...
Acknowledging Acknowledgement: The Havoc Effect
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...