Security research, reverse engineering & low-level systems.

Can Bölük — 13 articles — 2018–2026
The work
13The Minutiae of Tool-calling 12Snapcompact: SoTA Compaction — Instant, Local, Free. Pick 3 11I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed. 10Optimizing Bracha's Reliable Broadcast: Shaving Rounds off a 37-Year-Old Algorithm 09Reverse Engineering Hyperliquid ft. SetYesterdayUserVlm 08PgC: Garbage collecting Patchguard away 07Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick 06Writing an optimizing IL compiler, for dummies, by a dummy: 0x1 Symbolic Expressions 05ByePg: Defeating Patchguard using Exception-hooking 04Arbitrary Code Execution at Ring 0 using CVE-2018-8897 03Making the Perfect Injector: Abusing Windows Address Sanitization and CoW 02Escaping SMEP Hell: Exploiting Capcom Driver In a Safe Manner 01Splitting Data from Code, Forgotten x86 Feature: Segmentation
13 Software engineering 10 min

The Minutiae of Tool-calling

12 Software engineering 10 min

Snapcompact: SoTA Compaction — Instant, Local, Free. Pick 3

11 Software engineering 8 min

I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.

10 Distributed systems 38 min

Optimizing Bracha's Reliable Broadcast: Shaving Rounds off a 37-Year-Old Algorithm

09 Web3 35 min

Reverse Engineering Hyperliquid ft. SetYesterdayUserVlm

08 Windows internals 13 min

PgC: Garbage collecting Patchguard away

07 X86 18 min

Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick

06 Software analysis 19 min

Writing an optimizing IL compiler, for dummies, by a dummy: 0x1 Symbolic Expressions

05 Exploits 14 min

ByePg: Defeating Patchguard using Exception-hooking

04 Exploits 13 min

Arbitrary Code Execution at Ring 0 using CVE-2018-8897

03 Windows internals 9 min

Making the Perfect Injector: Abusing Windows Address Sanitization and CoW

02 Exploits 6 min

Escaping SMEP Hell: Exploiting Capcom Driver In a Safe Manner

01 X86 13 min

Splitting Data from Code, Forgotten x86 Feature: Segmentation