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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Hopper - Distributed Fuzzer\n   When: Friday\, Aug 9
 \, 14:00 - 15:45 PDT\n   Where: LVCC West/Floor 3/W308 - [1]Map\n\n   Desc
 ription:\n\n   Hopper is a Coverage-Guided Greybox Distributed Fuzzer\, in
 spired by\n   AFL++\, and written in Golang. Like other fuzzers\, Hopper o
 perates as a\n   standard command-line interface tool\, allowing you to ru
 n fuzz\n   campaigns to find vulnerabilities and exploits in software. Hop
 per's\n   mutation algorithm\, energy assigning strategy\, and out-of-proc
 ess\n   coverage gathering\, are all inspired by AFL++\, the current state
  of\n   the art fuzzer. However\, Hopper's distributed strategy differs\n 
   substantially than AFL++ in an attempt to define a new distributed\n   f
 uzzing paradigm. AFL++ and LibFuzzer have clear scaling limitations\n   in
  larger environments\, notably the AFL++’s rudimentary\n   multi-machine
  mode. As an early prototype\, Hopper addresses these\n   limitations by i
 mplementing a deduplicating communication schema that\n   establishes a co
 nsistency invariant\, minimizing repeated work done by\n   fuzzing nodes. 
 Hopper is a standalone\, new piece of software developed\n   from scratch 
 in the spirit of exploration\, this is not yet another\n   python plugin/e
 xtension for AFL++. Hopper is currently available on\n   GitHub\, includin
 g containerized runnable campaign demos. Tooling and\n   observability are
  first class features\, in the form of a TUI to\n   monitor fuzzing campai
 gns\, usage docs\, and quick-start scripts for\n   orchestrating fuzz camp
 aigns.\n\n   Speakers:Luciano Remes\,Wade Cappa\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Luciano
  Remes\, Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies\n\n   Luciano Remes re
 ceived a B.S. in Computer Science from the University\n   of Utah\, where 
 he did 2 years of grant-funded Systems research under\n   the FLUX Researc
 h Group\, finally working on his Thesis Hopper:\n   Distributed Fuzzer. Du
 ring this time\, he also interned at AWS EC2 and\n   Goldman Sachs SPARC i
 nfrastructure teams\, as well as a few startups\n   including Blerp and Ba
 secamp. Currently\, he's a Software Engineer at\n   Palantir Technologies 
 building distributed network infrastructure.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Wade Cappa
 \, Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies\n\n   Wade Cappa recently gr
 aduated from Washington State University with a\n   B.S in Computer Scienc
 e and is now working at Palantir Technologies as\n   a Software Engineer o
 n distributed data systems. He previously worked\n   at Microsoft in the S
 emantic Machines department\, creating a\n   dynamically linked debugging 
 utility for an internal use tooling\n   language. In his freetime he is wo
 rking with a\n   high-performance-computing research group on a cutting ed
 ge\n   distributed strategy for approximating submodular monotonic\n   opt
 imizations.\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level3_South\n\n\n
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LOCATION:DL - LVCC West/Floor 3/W308
SUMMARY:Hopper - Distributed Fuzzer
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