On 2019-03-09 6:06 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Sometimes I get annoyed at binaries for which I don't have any code. [snip] One way to pry these open is through reverse engineering tools
What prompts this message is that the NSA has just released Ghindra as open source. [snip] There are some other choices: <https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1817/is-there-any-disassembler-to-rival-ida-pro#1821>
I found myself working on a project where the source code was lost. The project uses a NanoPi that uses an Allwinner chip which is a 64-bit Aarch (ARM v8) architecture. I've tried several decompilers but they didn't work, or wouldn't even compile. I looked at boomerang, Hopper, snowman, retdec, and reko. The ones that work wouldn't handle the architecture. The ghidra decompiler has been the only one that has proven useful. I haven't read enough about it to know how to save source code out of it but I can browse decompiled output which is at least the first step in reconstituting source code. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick