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.
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This one's a reminder for me: if you aren't sure...
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 before LLMs changed the nature of our field. I will likely take...
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. It's time for some renovations! SSH authentication We want to...
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 inaccessibility of our horrifically dense, jargon-packed...
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 purple/pink ranges nowadays and I suspect they are also easier...
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 graduated. I never got to say goodbye to my students. I had...
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 numerous social harms at scale. I am a firm proponent that we...
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 follow the words of the serenity prayer. Instead of...
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 general sense of emotional and cognitive fatigue that comes with...
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 test planning, fuzz testing isn't a magic bug printer; just...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...