NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA to Public at RSA

Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by xvilka on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:41PM (#18829558)

I don't get an excitement. There is already IDA Pro and Binary Ninja, developing at a big pace and with actual support. Moreover, there is FOSS radare2[1] and Cutter[2], that also being developed at crazy speed. We have even work in progress decompiler radeco[3][4], though there is still a lot to be done. If people would contribute - there is a lot of time until March (time of GHIDRA release).

[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2

[2] https://github.com/radareorg/cutter

[3] https://github.com/radareorg/radeco

[4] https://github.com/radareorg/radeco-lib

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Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by fortenforge on Friday January 04, 2019 @10:34PM (#18829728)

Surely you can see how something that combines the best of both worlds (FOSS like r2 and feature-rich / has a working decompiler like IDA / binja) would be of interest to people right?

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Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by xvilka on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:17PM (#18829883)

RSA talk description never said anything about open sourcing it. Only about "free". And from WikiLeaks Vault7 documents it appears to be buggy.

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Re:NSA to Release Their Reverse Engineering Framework GHIDRA... by leetbulb on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:56PM (#18829599)

I've used r2 extensively. It's an extremely valuable tool set. Thank you and everyone else for the amazing work! I am very excited for its future.

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