Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE)

Defend Your Own System Through Binary Recompilation (13x3)

Fecha de emisión: Jul 25, 2020

Software distributors typically provide software in binary form to end users, yet many DevOps activities from performance profiling to security hardening are difficult to perform without access to source code. Furthermore, significant defenses such as the recent Spectre mitigations often require compiler-level changes. Even for open source systems, it takes time to rebuild projects from source and incorporate a modified compiler.