Finding Undocumented Instructions in the x86 Architecture
Black Hat · Talk · 44 min · 2017 · YouTube title: Breaking the x86 Instruction Set
Why it's here
HN recommends it as a clever, entertaining and easy-to-follow talk on finding hidden x86 instructions with the Sandsifter tool.
What it covers
Christopher Domas presents at Black Hat 2017 how page fault analysis and processor fuzzing can exhaustively search the x86 instruction set. The talk uncovers undocumented instructions and hardware bugs and shows limits of disassemblers.