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SUMMARY:Rendezvous: A search engine for binary code - Wei Ming Khoo\, Comp
 uter Laboratory\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20130514T151500Z
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CONTACT:Laurent Simon
DESCRIPTION:The problem of matching between binaries is important for soft
 ware copyright enforcement as well as for identifying disclosed vulnerabil
 ities in software. We present a search engine prototype called Rendezvous 
 which enables indexing and searching for code in binary form. Rendezvous i
 dentifies binary code using a statistical model comprising instruction mn
 emonics\, control flow sub-graphs and data constants which are simple to 
 extract from a disassembly\, yet normalising with respect to different com
 pilers and optimisations. Experiments show that Rendezvous achieves F2 mea
 sures of 86.7% and 83.0% on the GNU C library compiled with different comp
 iler optimisations and the GNU coreutils suite compiled with gcc and clang
  respectively. These two code bases together comprise more than one millio
 n lines of code. Rendezvous will bring significant changes to the way pat
 ch management and copyright enforcement is currently performed.\n\nThis is
  a practice talk for MSR'13. 
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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