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GHIDRA




Well, well, isn't this one for the books: the NSA have released GHIDRA, their reverse engineering tool. Yes, you read that correctly, the NSA have released something. Not The Shadow Brokers or any other APT, it hasn't been leaked or nabbed and let into the wild, this is a deliberate sharing of technology by the Puzzle Palace. Not what you'd expect, is it?

Announced at this years RSA conference (already controversial this year as Adi Shamir, the 'S' in RSA, was unable to obtain a visa to attend), this reverse engineering tool seems primed to shake things up a bit, as many RE tools cost a fair bit of money. It also seems to be free of backdoors, and although one bug has been found, it can be remedied was reasonable ease.

I've not really done much RE myself, but with a powerful, military-grade tool such as this, it might be a whole lot easier to get into. I'll let you know more when I've had a chance to play around with it.

If you are interested, GHIDRA (gee-dra) can be found here: https://ghidra-sre.org/ and at the NSA GitHub.
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