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US NSA Announces Open Source Availability of GHIDRA Software Reverse Engineering Framework

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

martyb writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @01:15AM (#810958)

    Even stupid Microsoft eventually figured out that they can't compete against everyone else when open source is eating the world
    It is funny that is mainly the reason MS dominated the market in the 90s. To buy anyone else was rocking out at least 20k kit of computers and compilers. You could outfit a MSDOS/Windoes dev in the 90s for ~2-3k vs Apple which wanted 20-25k. When the rest of the world just finally said 'f-it' and gave the dev tools away MS lost its way. They finally remembered it.