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pith:QMTL5LRY

pith:2025:QMTL5LRY7OBNSZ5OXR4C63TYJO

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On the Surprising Efficacy of LLMs for Penetration-Testing

Andreas Happe, J\"urgen Cito

arxiv:2507.00829 v1 · 2025-07-01 · cs.CR

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Hackers or Hallucinators? A Comprehensive Analysis of LLM-Based Automated Penetration Testing

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:30:15.290582Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8326beae38fb82d967aebc782f6e784ba8929bf5236953c8b14cf07b3c2a7b69

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.00829 · arxiv_version: 2507.00829v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.00829 · pith_short_12: QMTL5LRY7OBN · pith_short_16: QMTL5LRY7OBNSZ5O · pith_short_8: QMTL5LRY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QMTL5LRY7OBNSZ5OXR4C63TYJO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8326beae38fb82d967aebc782f6e784ba8929bf5236953c8b14cf07b3c2a7b69

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-01T15:01:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01d7f803ca69d572c46a17ba786a4cd0be21b1822db48ed419599e956a55c7b6"
  },
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  }
}