Internship Projects
Reverie: An optimized zero-knowledge proof system
Zero-knowledge proofs, once a theoretical curiosity, have recently seen widespread deployment in blockchain systems such as Zcash and Monero. However, most blockchain applications of ZK proofs make proof size and performance tradeoffs ...
Efficient audits with machine learning and Slither-simil
by Sina Pilehchiha, Concordia University Trail of Bits has manually curated a wealth of data—years of security assessment reports—and now we’re exploring how to use this data to make the smart contract ...
Let’s build a high-performance fuzzer with GPUs!
by Ryan Eberhart, Stanford University TL;DR: Can we use GPUs to get 10x performance/dollar when fuzzing embedded software in the cloud? Based on our preliminary work, we think the answer is yes! ...
Osquery: Using D-Bus to query systemd data
by Rachel Cipkins, Stevens Institute of Technology During my summer internship at Trail of Bits I worked on osquery, the massively popular open-source endpoint monitoring agent used for intrusion detection, threat hunting, ...
Detecting Iterator Invalidation with CodeQL
by Kevin Higgs, Montgomery Blair High School Iterator invalidation is a common and subtle class of C++ bugs that often leads to exploitable vulnerabilities. During my Trail of Bits internship this summer, ...
PrivacyRaven Has Left the Nest
By Suha S. Hussain, Georgia Tech If you work on deep learning systems, check out our new tool, PrivacyRaven—it’s a Python library that equips engineers and researchers with a comprehensive testing suite ...
Detecting Bad OpenSSL Usage
by William Wang, UCLA OpenSSL is one of the most popular cryptographic libraries out there; even if you aren’t using C/C++, chances are your programming language’s biggest libraries use OpenSSL bindings as ...
Emerging Talent: Winternship 2020 Highlights
The Trail of Bits Winternship is our winter internship program where we invite 10-15 students to join us over the winter break for a short project that has a meaningful impact on ...
Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2019 Recap
by Rachel Cipkins, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ A few weeks ago I had the inspiring experience of attending the annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the world’s largest gathering of women ...
Formal Analysis of the CBC Casper Consensus Algorithm with TLA+
by Anne Ouyang, Piedmont Hills High School, San Jose, CA As a summer intern at Trail of Bits, I used the PlusCal and TLA+ formal specification languages to explore Ethereum’s CBC Casper ...
