REcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters say it permanently changed how they think about inspecting binary data, and point to it as the origin of visual binary analysis tools.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Sébastien Duquette

Topic

binary visualization for reverse engineering

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Maybe it's a matter of tooling. I don't want to appear disrespectful, but after having seen Christopher Domas present "The Future of RE: Dynamic Binary Visualization" my mind was forever blown. Working with hexdumps, debuggers, disassemblers etc. seems so stone-agey compared to that. Like so …

• I don't think it's quite what you're looking for but cantor.dust is an interesting visualization tool for binary data. Security conference presentation from a decade ago: [VIDEO] Release of open-source Ghidra plugin in 2020: [LINK]

• Have you checked out this demo? [VIDEO] The 3d pan/tilt/zoom visualizations of the trigraphs are especially nice to look at.