The main page of codisec [0] lists that Veles has been retired. They since have a new project, CodiLime [1], which seems like is a general technology consulting/outsourcing company.
Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
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Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#12When these tools come up, I like to post my little list of similar tools, for those interested. Apparently it's a hobby of mine:
* fq - like jq for binary data: https://github.com/wader/fq
* Kaitai Struct - https://kaitai.io/
* visualizer, for the above: https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_visualizer/
* HexFiend - a hex editor, but with "binary templates" feature : https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend
* binary templates, for the above: https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend/blob/master/templates/T...
* binspector - https://github.com/binspector/binspector
* binary-parsing - a collection of links to similar such tools : https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
* unblob - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob
* ImHex - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
* GNU Poke - https://www.gnu.org/software/poke/
* dtrx - https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx/ dtrx
* feng - https://github.com/martinlindhe/feng
** they also have a similar list of prior art: https://github.com/martinlindhe/feng/blob/main/RESOURCES.md
And some previous HN threads for similar such tools:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34434249 (unblob)
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34986042 (GNU Poke #1)
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36182873 (GNU Poke #2)
Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#13When these tools come up, I like to post my little list of similar tools, for those interested. Apparently it's a hobby of mine: * fq - like jq for binary data: https://github.com/wader/fq * Kaitai Struct - https://kaitai.io/ * visualizer, for the above: https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_visualizer/ * HexFiend - a hex editor, but with "binary templates" feature : https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend * binary…
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Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#14When these tools come up, I like to post my little list of similar tools, for those interested. Apparently it's a hobby of mine: * fq - like jq for binary data: https://github.com/wader/fq * Kaitai Struct - https://kaitai.io/ * visualizer, for the above: https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_visualizer/ * HexFiend - a hex editor, but with "binary templates" feature : https://github.com/HexFiend/HexFiend * binary…
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Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#15Oh, I know something about this. Some people that made this are part of DragonSector [1] polish hacking group that broke DRMs in trains quite recently [2]. Sadly I joined company after there were long gone. Really surprised seeing this posted here as it was pointed out, the repo is pretty old and archived.
Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a major push for development back in 2015-2016, back before it was open sourced, but AFAIK it went dead pretty soon as internal funding dried up.. Looking at github commit log, it seems it died by mid 2018. First time I had to setup CI on a Mac, and what a horrible experience it was (Windows was comparatively easy, though finding out that starting with Windows Core wasn't best option took some time to learn…
Did you work for the parent company?
There was no "parent company" per se - codisec was a team inside CodiLime, starting out as an initiative to build more cybersecurity presence, including being the name we participated in various CTF contests. (This is all public info, you can find codisec at various CTF participation trackers too). And yes, I was there (worked at CodiLime late 2014 - early 2017), including in the early days of Veles (those who know my full name can easily find me in credits in the github repo, direct link with my account was lost when the repo was migrated into current one).
With regards to Veles, I mostly did infrastructure and tooling for CI/CD - so including the CMake stuff and making Jenkins setup for the builds. I think it was actually the first project on which I used Jenkinsfile, which was then very fresh thing. I was never much of a C++ fan so I didn't participate much in the editor code itself, especially with another project taking lion share of my attention later on.
Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#17I was summoned? ... oh sorry!
Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#18Neat, I was looking for such a tool a few days back and ended up not having the requisite google skills to find this (embarrassingly, it seems easy it find now)
I ended up writing my own script for visualizing my particular problem (trying to work out what's going on in the "mett" data frames in videos from my pixel phone, I was able to make some headway but I've gotten distracted by other projects, if anyone has info I'd appreciate it)
Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#19The GitHub repo [1] was made a read-only archive on Sep 30, 2020. Are there forks picking up where the original author left off? [1]: https://github.com/codilime/veles
Since this is an old tool and it fails to deal with large files, I made a completely new version from scratch a while ago, using a completely different rendering approach that's more like how you'd render a volumetric data set like an MRI scan. It loads the file and processes it into a 256x256x256 volumetric data set, which is then rendered using shaders. As a result, the file size doesn't matter for rendering, only…
You should add some screenshots!
Re: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
#20The main page of codisec [0] lists that Veles has been retired. They since have a new project, CodiLime [1], which seems like is a general technology consulting/outsourcing company. [0] https://codisec.com/ [1] https://codilime.com/
CodiLime was the actual company, CodiSec was "brand" for various security related activities, starting with CTF competitions where we used the name first, then it was used as brand for the team that worked on Veles (we continued to take part in CTFs)
None of the CodiSec members were among the management/founders/etc of CodiLime - we were AFAIK plain employees, though one of us was in fact mber of DragonSector which is partly how CodiSec started.