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Having replaced afl - which google barely maintains these days - with afl++ in all of my fuzzing projects, I can heartily endorse it! Keep up the good work


Maintainer here, happy to hear that! Doing our best :) Even Google's own OSS Fuzz switched to afl++ recently (https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/)


Google's lack of maintenance isn't super surprising, given that Zalewski (AFL creator) left Google 3 years ago. https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/976307141177884672


It's a bit of a shame that AFL upstream is (somewhat) dead. I'm now mainly using honggfuzz, and maintaining both projects downstream in Fedora. It would be nice if we had only one instrumented local fuzzing framework we could all use.


Why not have multiple with different strengths for different users, though? Honggfuzz is also really good. That being said, most distributions replace afl with afl++ these days.




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