During my time as a Trail of Bits associate last summer, I worked on optimizing the performance of Echidna, Trail of Bits’ open-source smart contract fuzzer, written in Haskell. Through extensive use of profilers and other tools, I was able to pinpoint and debug a massive space leak in one of Echidna’s […]
You’ve reached computer programming nirvana. Your journey has led you down many paths, including believing that God wrote the universe in LISP, but now the truth is clear in your mind: every problem can be solved by writing one more compiler. It’s true. Even our soon-to-be artificially intelligent overlords are nothing but […]
Welcome to our deep dive into the world of invariant development with Curvance. We’ve been building invariants as part of regular code review assessments for more than 6 years now, but our work with Curvance marks our very first official invariant development project, in which developing and testing invariants is all we […]
The Trail of Bits cryptography team is pleased to announce the open-sourcing of our pure Rust and Go implementations of Leighton-Micali Hash-Based Signatures (LMS), a well-studied NIST-standardized post-quantum digital signature algorithm. If you or your organization are looking to transition to post-quantum support for digital signatures, both of these implementations have been […]
This blog showcases five examples of real-world vulnerabilities that we’ve disclosed in the past year (but have not publicly disclosed before). We also share the frustrations we faced in disclosing them to illustrate the need for effective disclosure processes. Here are the five bugs: Undefined behavior in the borsh-rs Rust library Denial-of-service […]
Trail of Bits is excited to introduce Ruzzy, a coverage-guided fuzzer for pure Ruby code and Ruby C extensions. Fuzzing helps find bugs in software that processes untrusted input. In pure Ruby, these bugs may result in unexpected exceptions that could lead to denial of service, and in Ruby C extensions, they […]
We recently introduced our new offering, invariant development as a service. A recurring question that we are asked is, “Why fuzzing instead of formal verification?” And the answer is, “It’s complicated.” We use fuzzing for most of our audits but have used formal verification methods in the […]
Today, we’re releasing SARIF Explorer, the VSCode extension that we developed to streamline how we triage static analysis results. We make heavy use of static analysis tools during our audits, but the process of triaging them was always a pain. We designed SARIF Explorer to provide an intuitive UI inside VSCode, with […]
Today, we’re releasing weAudit, the collaborative code-reviewing tool that we use during our security audits. With weAudit, we review code more efficiently by taking notes and tracking bugs in a codebase directly inside VSCode, reducing our reliance on external tools, ensuring we never lose track of bugs we find, and enabling us […]
Today, Trail of Bits is publishing Attacknet, a new tool that addresses the limitations of traditional runtime verification tools, built in collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation. Attacknet is intended to augment the EF’s current test methods by subjecting their execution and consensus clients to some of the most challenging network conditions […]
Systemic security issues in blockchain projects often appear early in development. Without an initial focus on security, projects may choose flawed architectures or make insecure design or development choices that result in hard-to-maintain or vulnerable solutions. Traditional security reviews can be used to identify some security issues, but by the time they are complete, it […]
We’re excited to share that Trail of Bits has been selected as one of the seven exclusive teams to participate in the small business track for DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). Our team will receive a $1 million award to create a Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) and compete in the AIxCC […]
We’re digging up the archives of vulnerabilities that Trail of Bits has reported over the years. This post shares the story of two such issues: a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability hidden in JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), and an oversight in the Linux kernel that could enable circumvention of critical kernel […]
In October 2023, Ockam hired Trail of Bits to review the design of its product, a set of protocols that aims to enable secure communication (i.e., end-to-end encrypted and mutually authenticated channels) across various heterogeneous networks. A secure system starts at the design […]
We’ve added new features to Fickling to offer enhanced threat detection and analysis across a broad spectrum of machine learning (ML) workflows. Fickling is a decompiler, static analyzer, and bytecode rewriter for the Python pickle module that can help you detect, analyze, or create malicious pickle files. While the ML community […]
