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Adrian Crenshaw · 58.6K views · 2012-10-03 · 48:39

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Christopher Domas presents his Cantor Dust tool at Derbycon 2012, a 3D visual approach to reverse engineering binaries by visualizing their structure dynamically.

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Regarded as one of the coolest talks ever, with a futuristic binary visualization demo that has inspired later tools.

Recommended by 7 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2013–2026

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vanderZwan · 2026-08 · Strong recommendation

Also came up with the original ..cantor.dust.. binary visualization tool, which is a tool I never used directly but Chris' presentation of it in 2012 is still one of the coolest talks I've ever seen. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]

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nerdsniper · 2026-08 · Strong recommendation

My introduction to his work was "The future of RE Dynamic Binary Visualization"[0] which completely blew me away. It still feels futuristic today, 13 years later. Novel UI/UX paradigms like this are slow to find widespread adoption, even when they're so clearly demonstrated to be such an ideal fit for their purpose. 0: [VIDEO]

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LargoLasskhyfv · 2020-10 · Strong recommendation

Like CantorDust by Christopher Domas@Batelle? [VIDEO] really blew my mind when I saw it. Btw. about 8 years later they finally delivered, by releasing it as plug-in for Ghidra! Yay! [LINK]

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