[eresi-dev] My annoucement

[jv at ens dot fr]

Good afternoon

Today Thomas Garnier is leaving the project.

Once more the project team has to renew.

As Thomas explained, both himself and the
ERESI project has switched of central interest.
ERESI started as a pure security project and
has turned into a  research project applied to
security. While it may give us less popularity, it
brings us more academic and industrial perspectives
in the future.

As in every project, ERESI has to evolve for surviving.

When I started the ELFsh project 6 years ago and
a half ago, I would have never imagined it could
reach this level of development. Soon, I got great
help from Sebastien Roy who developed the original
libasm for the INTEL architecture.

As we were meeting more and more people in events
where ELFsh was getting presented, new people got
a lot of interest and became contributors. That was
the case of security researchers known as kil3r, grugq,
or yannmalcom, giving a hand on some code and having
fun with us at every events and conference we presented,
acted, or even organized.

For almost 2 years now, the project has been handled in
a more professional manner. Rafal Lesniak has done a
remarkable job on administrating the website server, opening
the bugtracking system, and setting up the web CVS. Thanks
to this organization, it made it possible for more people to join
our collective and community effort, and we could reach a high
level of development alltogether. Julio Auto is doing a great job
on the topic of code analysis, and more recently Anthony Desnos
has started his effort on kernel-level analysis, which can as well
benefit from all our previous work on static and runtime analysis,
thanks to the architecture of the ERESI project which has always
been toward providing ultimate code reusability.

Thomas will be a great loss for the project without a doubt,
but I have faith in the future of ERESI. As a project leader, I
have always welcomed and received serious collaborators
propositions very seriously, and even if I can sound as lacking
so much diplomacy in public sometimes, I always kept a
necessary distance for handling even beginner contributors
(if they really give at least a little feedback in the first times).
When Thomas started to develop ERESI, he was a beginner
in C programming. No doubt that he has made so much
improvements since then. I am sure this evolution was due
only to his hard work, but I am happy to see that he appreciated
all the time we spent on IRC talking about experiences in the
computer security community. I will always support Thomas
for his future projects and I personally do not exclude to work again
with him in the future on other projects if we can find agreement
on our collective needs.

The new cycle of ERESI is starting. ERESI is developped by the ERESI
team, by alphabetical order: Julio Auto, Anthony Desnos, Rafal Lesniak,
Sebastien Roy, and Julien Vanegue. We will continue developping and
presenting our work in conferences and journals like we did in the past.

We look forward to the next 6 years

Happy reversing

Julien Vanegue