The Decompilation Book: a free tutorial series teaching how decompilers work, built around tiny-dec
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-14
Security researchers Hugo Matousek, SeungHyun Sung and Zhuo Zhang launched The Decompilation Book, a blog-series-style tutorial inspired by The Fuzzing Book, teaching how compilers' inverse — decompilation — works, with hands-on code via their tiny-dec project.
Notably, while building SRE-Bench they watched GPT-6 Astra solve nearly every challenge in the benchmark's first version, prompting a harder sequel and a reflection: as AI takes over reverse engineering, beginner-friendly resources on the fundamentals remain scarce.
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