The Next Challenge for Agentic Cybersecurity: A Realistic, Contamination-Free Reverse Engineering Benchmark · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.11469/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTThe Next Challenge for Agentic Cybersecurity: A Realistic, Contamination-Free Reverse Engineering Benchmark — mentioned by quyleanhhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559298urn:hackerpapers:mention:2608.11469:49559298Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:13:41 GMT<p>&gt; We also tested Astra on SRE-Bench [15], a benchmark that measures whether models can reverse engineer software binaries to understand its core logic without access to raw source code. Astra solved 88.0% of tasks in a single attempt and 99.2% within four attempts, compared with 55.9% and 68.7% for GPT‑5.6 Sol, respectively. So the closed source application should open its source in near future? [15] https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11469v1</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.11469/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR