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0 pointstptacek2mo ago0 comments

"C executables" are most of the frontier of exploit development, which is why this is a meaningful model problem.

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Can we fight fire with fire, and use LLMs to rewrite all the C in Rust?

Usually rewriting something in Rust requires nontrivial choices on the part of the translator that I’m not sure are currently within the reach of LLMs.

koakuma-chan2mo ago

I heard this before, that apparently there are things you cannot implement in Rust. Like, apparently you cannot implement certain data structures in Rust. I think this is bullshit. Rust supports raw pointers, etc. You can implement whatever you want in Rust.

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0xbadcafebee2mo ago

Sure, but the LLMs will just chain 14 functions instead of 7. If all C code is rewritten in Rust tomorrow that still leaves all the other bug classes. Eliminating a bug class might have made human attacks harder, but now with LLMs the "hardness" factor is purely how much token money you have.

adrianN2mo ago

Llms are not magic. Fixing a large class of exploits makes exploitation harder.

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