Ghidra

#1

Post by jakobdabo » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 6:13 PM UTC

Ghidra
nsa.gov

Re: Ghidra

#2

Post by amiga-workbench » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 8:39 PM UTC

Uhh, what's this about? https://i.imgur.com/e3kNYTH.png

Re: Ghidra

#3

Post by chc4 » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 8:45 PM UTC

There was a thread on HN when they first announced a public release at RSA[0]. A lot of reverse engineers I know are excited for it.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18828083

Re: Ghidra

#4

Post by captn3m0 » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:03 PM UTC

amiga-workbench wrote: post #2

Uhh, what's this about? https://i.imgur.com/e3kNYTH.png

Link, in case someone wants to dig further. https://nsa.dod.afpims.mil/

Re: Ghidra

#5

Post by slimsag » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

My brother is into reverse engineering, he is literally counting the days to the open source release of this.

He said there isn't anything quite like it as it can actually stand toe-to-toe with IDA Pro, the commercial software that apparently nothing yet can really beat.

Re: Ghidra

#6

Post by hermitdev » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #4

amiga-workbench wrote: post #2

Uhh, what's this about? https://i.imgur.com/e3kNYTH.png

Link, in case someone wants to dig further. https://nsa.dod.afpims.mil/

403'd for me...was forced from https to http for some reason (on mobile with JS disabled - maybe a factor?).

Re: Ghidra

#7

Post by ypolito » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

Can't wait to try it and read articles comparing its features with IDA, Binary Ninja, radare2 or Hopper. Sounds really interesting!

Re: Ghidra

#8

Post by richardwhiuk » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #4

amiga-workbench wrote: post #2

Uhh, what's this about? https://i.imgur.com/e3kNYTH.png

Link, in case someone wants to dig further. https://nsa.dod.afpims.mil/

I get:

> You cannot visit nsa.dod.afpims.mil at the moment because the website sent scrambled credentials that Google Chrome cannot process. Network errors and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work later.

Re: Ghidra

#9

Post by aboutruby » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

On a sidenote, looking at their Github, they publish a lot of names / emails in the git logs (~100). Some are encoded / anonymous, but most are real looking names and plausible email addresses.

Re: Ghidra

#10

Post by chc4 » Sun, Feb 24, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

slimsag wrote: post #5

My brother is into reverse engineering, he is literally counting the days to the open source release of this. He said there isn't anything quite like it as it can actually stand toe-to-toe with IDA Pro, the commercial software that apparently nothing yet can really beat.

Yup. IDA Pro is the gold standard, and was basically the only choice for a long time. It's also stupidly expensive and priced for defense contractor funny money, with an individual license nearly $3000 [0]. Most freelancers just use a cracked copy or the freeware version.

Recently Hopper and BinaryNinja have been rising in use, with much more affordable pricing plans, but they're still second-rate as far as I know.

(There's also radare2, which for all it's mentioned occasionally I don't actually know anyone that uses it)

0: https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi