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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday March 06 2019, @08:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-gonna-try-it...YOU-try-it! dept.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) announces it has made its GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering (SRE) framework available as open source. Key features of Ghidra are:

  • includes a suite of software analysis tools for analyzing compiled code on a variety of platforms including Windows, Mac OS, and Linux
  • capabilities include disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing and scripting, and hundreds of other features
  • supports a wide variety of processor instruction sets and executable formats and can be run in both user-interactive and automated modes
  • users may develop their own Ghidra plug-in components and/or scripts using the exposed API

The framework can be downloaded from https://ghidra-sre.org/. The page has a button labeled "SHA-256" but it seems to require Javascript for it to be displayed. A simple "view source" (you don't think I'm gonna let the NSA have execution permission on my computer!) of the page revealed:

3b65d29024b9decdbb1148b12fe87bcb7f3a6a56ff38475f5dc9dd1cfc7fd6b2 ghidra_9.0_PUBLIC_20190228.zip

Alternatively, it also seems to be available on GitHub.

What I really want to know is how are you supposed to pronounce its name?


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  • (Score: 2) by ls671 on Wednesday March 06 2019, @08:59AM (1 child)

    by ls671 (891) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 06 2019, @08:59AM (#810641) Homepage

    You don't get it. It is a trojan gift to us all. Who is going to reverse engineer the reverse engineering tool anyway :)

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday March 06 2019, @12:04PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 06 2019, @12:04PM (#810669) Journal

    Who is going to reverse engineer the reverse engineering tool anyway :)

    MDC volunteered. For $$$$$ pussy.

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