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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · May 13

personal achievement: [h-index 5 unlocked]

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Daniel Klischies @dklischies.bsky.social · May 11

📢 Excited to announce that the results on BaseBridge, our project on improving cellular baseband emulation, are going public this week. Dyon will present at IEEE S&P on Monday 3pm, while David and I will be on stage at @offensivecon.bsky.social on Saturday 11am with even more details! 1/6

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · May 9

design inspired by the great usgraphics website and font is of course the one and only Berkeley Mono.

to search for and fetch recent papers I use AI2's semantic scholar and ExaAILabs` APIs.

lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · May 9

recently, the google scholar feed I used to explore new work in my fields of interest was removed.

so I built my own paper discovery website:
a minimalistic design with high information density and full control over search terms.

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · May 5

okay deepwiki is pretty sweet.
just replace 'github' with 'deepwiki' in a repo's url and it will generate an architecture overview, explanations for components, flow diagrams etc.

I tried it on large code bases like afl++ and libafl and it's actually impressive

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 28

new CCS workshop on decompilation, reversing, root cause analysis, debugging, etc. 👀

ACM SURE Workshop @sureworkshop.bsky.social · Apr 25

We are excited to announce that the 1st Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering (SURE) will be co-located at ACM CCS 2025 in Taiwan! We invite the community to submit their awesome research sure-workshop.org/.

So, what is SURE? More in the 🧵

SURE 2025 | The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering

The Workshop on Software Understanding and Reverse Engineering

sure-workshop.org

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 23

the paper by Michael Chesser et al. is a good read in any case:
arxiv.org/pdf/2301.13346

Sogen Windows emulator: github.com/momo5502/sogen

arxiv.org

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 23

icicle's main selling points are its support for a diverse set of architectures by emulating p-code and architecture-agnostic fuzzing instrumentation. I guess multi-arch support is not really needed for this project but its fuzzing focus might come in handy.

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 23

the guy who reversed the denuvo drm
@momo5502.bsky.social works on a high-perf windows emulator for security research.

I noticed that it supports icicle as a backend, a fuzzing-specific emulator. awesome to see academic work being continuously developed and making it into the real world

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 23

I thought USENIX was huge with like 300 accepted papers and 6 speaker tracks in parallel.
but man these ml conferences look kinda dystopian

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 13

the recording of my talk "Rethinking Emulation for Fu(zzi)n(g) and Profit: Near-Native Rehosting for Embedded ARM Firmware" is online!

I had an absolute blast speaking and being at
@re-verse.io, so many great talks and hallway discussions

RE//verse @re-verse.io · Apr 11

We were slow with the last video update so we figured we'd do a two for one! Lukas talks about rehosting firmware for fuzzing (youtu.be/o_ckTnTQlfs) and Robin shows off a fantastic new tool for exploring code relationships beyond single binaries (www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsDn...)

RE//verse 2025: Rethinking Emulation for Fu(zzi)n(g) (Lukas Seidel)

Full title: Rethinking Emulation for Fu(zzi)n(g) and Profit: Near-Native Rehosting for Embedded ARM FirmwareSlides: https://github.com/binarly-io/Research_Pu...

youtu.be

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 10

more exciting stuff coming to libAFL @aflplusplus.bsky.social , including a binary-only ASan implementation in Rust for QEMU and integration with the unicorn emulator!

reminds me of how @dmnk.bsky.social and I got the unicornafl rust bindings up and running to fuzz some basebands 5 years ago

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Apr 2

some convenient features coming to binja, incl. auto-classification of embedded devices based on peripheral accesses

making firmware hacking maybe a little less painful

cc @stacksmashing.bsky.social

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 22

yea it's annoying.
the feed was never great to begin with imho, and then it keeps breaking.
i think it's what I dislike about bluesky the most, that discovery of people / stuff you don't directly follow is pretty hard

lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 21

3.7 is both in api and in cursor just utterly disappointing.
when it does what it's supposed to, it's great, but man is it trying hard to misinterpret my intentions.

lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 20

beautiful and incredibly interesting talk on reverse engineering the OG xbox by
@ret2systems.bsky.social's Markus, incl. building a custom interposer to upgrade the CPU

a deep dive into hardware hacking, an ode to hw engineering and a call for software-focused researchers to try new things

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 12

libAFL is a beast.
it has so many settings to tweak, different modes to select and the code can be quite scary at first.

but writing a target-specific custom fuzzer is super powerful!

to get started, Trail of Bits just published a nice primer:
appsec.guide/docs/fuzzing...

LibAFL

LibAFL # The LibAFL fuzzer implements features from AFL-based fuzzers like AFL++. Similarly to AFL++, LibAFL provides better fuzzing performance and more advanced features over libFuzzer. However, wit...

appsec.guide

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 12

my google scholar's 'recommended articles' feed has been empty for weeks.
where is, it I miss it :/

anyone any recommendation for an alternative? some tunable feed of recent papers?

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 11

please do it :D

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 3

thank you so much Vector35, @psifertex.bsky.social et al. for a great conference!

also thanks to Binarly, it's always great to hang out with the team!

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 3

slides: t.co/gB0YWQYy9G
github: github.com/pr0me/SAFIRE...

https://github.com/binarly-io/Research_Publications/blob/main/REverse_2025/Near-Native%20Rehosting%20for%20Embedded%20ARM%20Firmware.pdf

t.co

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Mar 3

I had a blast speaking and being at the RE//verse conference!

so many cool people and great discussions on firmware, fuzzing, ai and binary analysis

if you want to find out more about firmware rehosting or are an enjoyer of ascii diagrams, check out the slides to my talk below :)

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Feb 27

today was blessed.
had a super fun day at Kennedy Space Center.

and then I got to witness my first rocket launch in person, a falcon 9 bringing Intuitive Machine's lunar lander into orbit.
my space-nerd heart is so happy.

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lukas seidel @pr0me.bsky.social · Feb 24

excellent blog post on garbage collectors: "Memory Hell"

it addresses many of humanity's great questions:
- do we actually know how to do garbage collection?
- pointers, indices or handlers?
- and what are typesafe use-after-frees?

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Zion Leonahenahe Basque @mahal0z.bsky.social · Jan 29

2024 was a significant year for decompilation, constituting a possible resurgence in the field. Major talks, the thirty-year anniversary of research, movements in AI, and an all-time high for top publications in decompilation.

Join me for a retrospective:
mahaloz.re/dec-progr...

Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research

The year 2024 was a resurgant year for decompilation. Academic publications from that year made up nearly 30% of all top publications ever made in decompilat...

mahaloz.re

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