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REcon 2013 - The Future of RE : Dynamic Binary Visualization (Christopher Domas)

Sébastien Duquette · talk · Watch on YouTube

Security & hackingData visualization & information design

What it is

Christopher Domas's REcon 2013 talk on dynamic binary visualization for reverse engineering. He shows how rendering binary data as interactive visual maps and trigraphs reveals structure that hex dumps hide, leading to his Cantor.dust tool.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters say it permanently changed how they think about inspecting binary data, and point to it as the origin of visual binary analysis tools.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “after having seen Christopher Domas present "The Future of RE: Dynamic Binary Visualization" my mind was forever blown.”

    Dynamic binary visualization that makes hexdump-era tooling seem stone-age

    LargoLasskhyfv, 2017-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Unexpected Risks Found in Editing Genes to Prevent Inherited Disorders”

  2. “cantor.dust is an interesting visualization tool for binary data.”

    Cantor.dust, an interesting visualization tool for binary data

    oldmanludd, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Are There Viewers for Memory Layout?”

  3. “The 3d pan/tilt/zoom visualizations of the trigraphs are especially nice to look at.”

    Demo with 3D pan, tilt and zoom trigraph visualizations

    hoosieree, 2024-09 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Bin-graph: Visualize binary files”

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Topics: reverse engineering, binary visualization, cantor.dust, security, recon

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