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Michał Zalewski

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The Fuzzer

american fuzzy lop and Silence on the Wire

Rating

89Impact score
Technical97
Social40
Notoriety78
Influence94
FromPoland
Era2000s–present

Domains

FuzzingBrowser securityPassive recon

Scouting report

Wrote afl, the coverage-guided fuzzer that found thousands of bugs across the software everyone depends on and reset the state of the art for everyone else. Author of Silence on the Wire and The Tangled Web, and a long-time browser security lead at Google.

Curator’s note

The bug-finding tool with the highest body count in open source history.

Sources