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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4e83021d..b2f41315 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -366,9 +366,9 @@ If you find other good ones, please send them to us :-) ## Power schedules -The power schedules were copied from Marcel Böhme's excellent AFLfast -implementation and expand on the ability to discover new paths and -therefore may increase the code coverage. +The power schedules were copied from Marcel Böhme's AFLfast implementation and +measure differently which queue entries to prefer and therefore may find +different paths faster for large queues. The available schedules are: @@ -382,16 +382,10 @@ The available schedules are: - mmopt (afl++ experimental) - seek (afl++ experimental) -In parallel mode (-M/-S, several instances with the shared queue), we suggest to -run the main node using the explore or fast schedule (-p explore) and the secondary -nodes with a combination of cut-off-exponential (-p coe), exponential (-p fast), -explore (-p explore) and mmopt (-p mmopt) schedules. If a schedule does -not perform well for a target, restart the secondary nodes with a different schedule. - -In single mode, using -p fast is usually slightly more beneficial than the -default explore mode. -(We don't want to change the default behavior of afl, so "fast" has not been -made the default mode). +In parallel mode (-M/-S, several instances with the shared queue), we suggest +to run the main node using the default explore schedule (`-p explore`) and the +secondary nodes with different schedules. If a schedule does not perform well +for a target, restart the secondary nodes with a different schedule. More details can be found in the paper published at the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security [CCS'16](https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2016/accepted-papers/) |