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ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by weinzierl »

This is a potential modern replacement for the 010 editor[1], which is kind of the standard hex editor for reverse engineering.

010 is great but also a bit dated[2] and clunky. I thought numerous times that a modern rewrite could be a nice project to work on. I'm happy that others tackled it! Kudos to the team.

One super cool feature would be if ImHex could read the 010 templates, but I'm not sure if that is legally OK. I'm not even sure if it would be morally OK, because I guess just as much work has gone into them as into the actual editor.

[1] https://www.sweetscape.com/

[2] It is actively maintained but looks old tech.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by qorrect »

GuB-42 wrote: post #9
kronks wrote: post #3

Referring to the title: Is a hex editor useful for literally anybody else? As a reverser it does seem amazing!

At work, I sometimes have to encode or decode binary data, to which I have full specs, and a hex editor is an extremely valuable tool. A hex editor is to binary data what a debugger is to code, a packet analyzer is to networking, and an oscilloscope is to electronics. These tools can be used for reverse engineering, but it is certainly not their only purpose.

What tool do you use now ?

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by bitexploder »

weinzierl wrote: post #11

This is a potential modern replacement for the 010 editor[1], which is kind of the standard hex editor for reverse engineering. 010 is great but also a bit dated[2] and clunky. I thought numerous times that a modern rewrite could be a nice project to work on. I'm happy that others tackled it! Kudos to the team. One super cool feature would be if ImHex could read the 010 templates, but I'm not sure if that is legally…

I like Oketa as well. Oketa, ImHex and HexFiend are all nice tools. Some folks swear by the radare suite as well. ImHex has the most features for fiddling with data structures and such.

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by jjoonathan »

kronks wrote: post #3

Referring to the title: Is a hex editor useful for literally anybody else? As a reverser it does seem amazing!

How else are you supposed to debug misbehaving byte order markers and emojis and other U̷̼͌T̷͔̑F̷̤̂ ̴̯͗b̶̤̋l̵̜̈́a̸̭̚c̵͕̊k̶̦̅ ̶͓͆m̸͙̎a̴͖̿g̴̠͝i̸͛ͅc̸̡͌ in your "plain text"?

Re: ImHex – A Hex Editor

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Post by misnome »

Do all ImGui apps have text rendering this bad? I'm having trouble smoothly reading... any of the text, at least on Mac. It has a settings box, which allows you to change font size (but appears to do nothing), and a scaling option which ... just seems to make the artifacts bigger.

Switching to dark mode (by default it matched the system) made it slightly better just by virtue of having more contrast (and all the setting boxes actually have different coloured backgrounds that means you can tell where one ends and the other begins).

It would be nice to find a good replacement for 010.

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