Is fuzzing important?

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Link: https://www.acsac.org/2019/program/final/1/171.pdf

This is an article about using a (?) new fuzzing app (SR Fuzzing) to detect vulnerabilities.

I stumbled over this article and other than hearing that fuzzing is involved in security, know nothing about it and am curious if it is significant.

The authors are all Chinese from Chinese institutions, for what it is worth.

If this is a new/useful tool, I would like to know it <g>.
 
Fuzzing is usually a "destructive testing" approach. It's basically taking a known good input to a program, and then modifying it algorithmically (or randomly) and then sending it into the program to see if any breakage can be detected. It's something developers SHOULD use and white hat security researchers do use, but it's not really something valuable for end users.
 
Thanks for clarifying. As a noobie, I have no basis for judging if the fuzzing tool described is better in any way than conventional fuzzers.
 
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