About

James Every

Abstract

The technical writings and projects of James Every. Opinions expressed herein are personal and do not reflect those of employers, past or present.

Selected Works

The Road to Chernobyl: World Records in Weird Machine Kolmogorov Complexity
Meteorological Opposite of Hell: Secure Element Black Box Firmware Exploitation
I’ll See Your FPGA and Raise You a Pencil: Cracking Hashes on the Back of a Napkin

CTFs/Wargames

NCC Group

NCC Hacking Challenges

Welcome to the Wasteland: A Case Study in the Perils of Security Through Obscurity
Binary Russian Roulette: Identifying Leaked Ed25519 Private Keys in Bare Metal Code
Cutting Bootstraps with Occam's Razor: Exploiting Logic Flaws in Secure Boot
SHA512 Is Not a DSA: Using Partial Hash Collisions To Own a Custom Bootloader
Military Grade Encryption: Reverse Engineering Nonstandard Embedded AES Implementations
Meteorological Opposite of Hell: Secure Element Black Box Firmware Exploitation

Matasano

A Stranger in Algiers: How to Become a Heap Exploitation Autodidact
The Road to Chernobyl: World Records in Weird Machine Kolmogorov Complexity
I’ll See Your FPGA and Raise You a Pencil: Cracking Hashes on the Back of a Napkin

Pending Publication

Vanity Patching Coreboot: Implementing BIOS Splash Screen Animations in Fifty Lines of C
Attack Surface the Size of Mars: Subverting Software CFI
Proving You Had the 0day First: Cryptographic Proofs of Existence for Exploit Development