Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

I'm curious as to what prevented them from doing that on day one. Any legal issues presumably would have been worked out prior to the announcement. I guess timelines didn't line up :)

Re: Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

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Post by saagarjha » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

tango12 wrote: post #3

Prev HN thread (recent): https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/

(That’s not a Hacker News thread)

Re: Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

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Post by Aissen » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

archgoon wrote: post #4

It looks like they managed to finally get the source code released 2 weeks ago. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra I'm curious as to what prevented them from doing that on day one. Any legal issues presumably would have been worked out prior to the announcement. I guess timelines didn't line up :)

Code arrived on this repo just 4 days ago. Previously, part of the code was released alongside the binary in a tarball.

Re: Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

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Post by grosswait » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 10:24 PM UTC

archgoon wrote: post #4

It looks like they managed to finally get the source code released 2 weeks ago. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra I'm curious as to what prevented them from doing that on day one. Any legal issues presumably would have been worked out prior to the announcement. I guess timelines didn't line up :)

The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly

Re: Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

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Post by cthalupa » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 10:34 PM UTC

tango12 wrote: post #3

Prev HN thread (recent): https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/

I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315273 is what you were looking for

Re: Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

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Post by drakenot » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 10:36 PM UTC

archgoon wrote: post #4

It looks like they managed to finally get the source code released 2 weeks ago. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra I'm curious as to what prevented them from doing that on day one. Any legal issues presumably would have been worked out prior to the announcement. I guess timelines didn't line up :)

I originally thought it was because they were waiting for the official announcement at the RSA conference before they released the source code but I guess that wasn't it considering it still took them some time.

Re: Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine

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Post by VikingCoder » Sun, Apr 07, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

If Ghidra was really good, they wouldn't have had to release the source to it. ;)