Computer scientists are notorious for a specific kind of laziness: the kind of laziness that makes them work really hard in order to avoid some other, often more boring, hard work.
Crypton
, a tool developed by
F5 Networks
researchers Julia Karpin and Anna Dorfman, is a great example of that: it aims to speed up the reverse engineering process by decrypting encrypted content found in a (malicious) binary.
Such a tool can be a great help in itself, but even better is the fact that Julia and Anna wrote a detailed description of the development of the tool in their VB2017 paper – which they then presented at the conference in Madrid.
Today, we publish the paper in both
HTML
and
PDF
format; we have also uploaded the video of Julia and Anna’s presentation to our
YouTube
channel.
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