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authorvan Hauser <vh@thc.org>2021-12-07 15:18:32 +0100
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-# AFL dictionaries
+# AFL++ dictionaries
(See [../README.md](../README.md) for the general instruction manual.)
-This subdirectory contains a set of dictionaries that can be used in
-conjunction with the -x option to allow the fuzzer to effortlessly explore the
-grammar of some of the more verbose data formats or languages. The basic
-principle behind the operation of fuzzer dictionaries is outlined in section 10
-of the "main" README.md for the project.
+This subdirectory contains a set of dictionaries that can be used in conjunction
+with the -x option to allow the fuzzer to effortlessly explore the grammar of
+some of the more verbose data formats or languages.
-These sets were done by Michal Zalewski, various contributors, and imported
-from oss-fuzz, go-fuzz and libfuzzer.
+These sets were done by Michal Zalewski, various contributors, and imported from
+oss-fuzz, go-fuzz and libfuzzer.
Custom dictionaries can be added at will. They should consist of a
reasonably-sized set of rudimentary syntax units that the fuzzer will then try
-to clobber together in various ways. Snippets between 2 and 16 bytes are
-usually the sweet spot.
+to clobber together in various ways. Snippets between 2 and 16 bytes are usually
+the sweet spot.
Custom dictionaries can be created in two ways:
@@ -36,9 +34,9 @@ In the file mode, every name field can be optionally followed by @<num>, e.g.:
`keyword_foo@1 = "foo"`
Such entries will be loaded only if the requested dictionary level is equal or
-higher than this number. The default level is zero; a higher value can be set
-by appending @<num> to the dictionary file name, like so:
+higher than this number. The default level is zero; a higher value can be set by
+appending @<num> to the dictionary file name, like so:
`-x path/to/dictionary.dct@2`
-Good examples of dictionaries can be found in xml.dict and png.dict.
+Good examples of dictionaries can be found in xml.dict and png.dict. \ No newline at end of file