Sina Pilehchiha

Summary: Trail of Bits described using its archive of years of manually curated security assessment reports to make smart contract auditing more efficient with a tool called Slither-simil, which detects similar vulnerable code snippets based on knowledge embedded in previous audits. The post, by Sina Pilehchiha of Concordia University, was published on October 23, 2020 as an internship project under the blog's audits and machine-learning categories.
Why it matters: The approach rests on a firm's accumulated audit history: the detection capability is only as good as the prior assessments feeding it, so organizations without that corpus of past findings have nothing comparable to draw on.

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