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		qbrass on April 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Afl-fuzz: making up grammar with a dictionary in h... Genetic algorithms are more general than that. They don't have to generate code. Using GAs to specifically generate code is genetic programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming

logicallee on April 15, 2015 [–]

But isn't the point of afl-fuzz that it knows deeply about the executable its targeting (watches its state)?

So it would be like inspecting the test cases deeply as you fuzz, as opposed to treating them as a black box to hill-climb...

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