Explore the groundbreaking Keystone Engine, a next-generation assembler framework, in this 24-minute Black Hat conference talk. Delve into the world of multi-architecture, multi-platform assembler frameworks and discover how Keystone addresses the long-standing need for a comprehensive solution in the Reverse Engineering (RE) community. Learn about its support for various architectures including Arm, Arm64, Hexagon, Mips, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ, and X86, as well as its clean, intuitive API and language bindings. Understand the challenges in designing and implementing such a framework, and see how Keystone's thread-safe, open-source nature sets it apart. Gain insights into the potential applications of Keystone in security research and development, and witness demonstrations of advanced RE tools built using this powerful engine.
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Keystone Engine: Next Generation Assembler Framework
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