mahaloz

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Native Hawaiian Hacker | Co-captain of @Shellphish CTF Team | PhD Student in Comp Sci @asu | Decompilation research
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Show threadmahalozJun 29
Photo credz @richinseattle
mahalozJun 29
I am very grateful to have been part of the panel at REcon. Like last year, I find myself leaving @reconmtl inspired and motivated to keep pushing forward in my research. Thanks again for all the awesome conversations, everyone. Hope to see you all next year.
mahalozMay 14
What does it mean to be a hacker? This semester, I taught a hacker history and culture class, which was a blast. In one assignment, my students paid tribute to the classic @phrack Pro-Phile -- a small bio on a famous hacker. Check out their pieces: https://cse194.mahaloz.re/prophiles.html
Pro-Philes | CSE194: Hacker History

mahalozMar 28

New updates to the Decompilation Wiki by harpend (on GitHub). We have a new in-depth Switch structuring section and a new Loop Reduction section.

https://decompilation.wiki/fundamentals/structuring/schema-based/switch-structuring/

Switch Structuring - Decompilation Wiki

The Decompilation Wiki is a categorized information hub for works and applications of decompilation.

mahalozMar 1
If you are looking for my slides from my Reverse talk, you can find it and useful artifacts here: https://github.com/mahaloz/talks/tree/main/2025/REverse_SAILR
talks/2025/REverse_SAILR at main · mahaloz/talks

A repo for holding talk artifacts, including a summary, slides, and demo PoCs - mahaloz/talks

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mahalozJan 29

2024 was a significant year for decompilation, constituting a possible resurgence in the field. Major talks, the thirty-year anniversary of research, movements in AI, and an all-time high for top publications in decompilation.

Join me for a retrospective:
https://mahaloz.re/dec-progress-2024

Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research

The year 2024 was a resurgant year for decompilation. Academic publications from that year made up nearly 30% of all top publications ever made in decompilation. In this post, I do a summarization and retrospective of both the academic and ideological progress of decompilation in 2024.

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Show threadmahalozJan 22

Everything in this talk is open-source, from our algorithms to the very decompiler we made to handle these optimizations:
https://github.com/angr/angr-management
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-301-basque.pdf

Try it out, and come with fun questions about decompilation :).

GitHub - angr/angr-management: The official angr GUI.

The official angr GUI. Contribute to angr/angr-management development by creating an account on GitHub.

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mahalozJan 22
Whether it be IDA, Ghidra, or Binja, we've all encountered lousy decompilation, even in the simplest of programs. A large culprit? Compiler optimizations! However, not all opts are equal, and many are reversible. Interested in how/why? Come to my talk at @REverseConf next month!
mahalozDec 5, 2024
New in DAILA, an AI-integrated decompiler plugin, v3.15.0, support for custom endpoints was added by @pc944. Check it out: https://github.com/mahaloz/DAILA/releases/tag/v3.15.0
Release v3.15.0 · mahaloz/DAILA

What's Changed Preliminary support for local LLM endpoints (tested on Ollama) by @pc9441 in #71 New Contributors @pc9441 made their first contribution in #71 Full Changelog: v3.14.0...v3.15.0

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mahalozDec 4, 2024

Adding one more social media platform to the mix: https://bsky.app/profile/mahal0z.bsky.social

Follow me there or here for more decompiler and program analysis research.

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Native Hawaiian Hacker | Prev Co-captain of @Shellphish | PhD Student in Comp Sci @ASU l Decompiler Research | https://mahaloz.re

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