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There’s also the NSA’s Ghidra which is a competitor for the best open source application IMO. Previously the only tool for heavy-duty reverse engineering was IDA Pro, which is very expensive (and not open source, of course). The NSA has selfish incentives to have tools like this be open source - free training especially - but it’s still a very good thing.
Don’t feel too bad. A lot of more complicated Java programs utilize JNI with platform-specfic code, so even if you knew it was Java, it’s not a given that it works on Linux - especially given the incredibly complicated nature of decompilation, and that Ghidra has a DSL to define processors/“languages”.
There is some movement, but it isn’t nearly enough.
https://code.mil/
Thanks for sharing I didn’t even know this existed.
There’s also the NSA’s Ghidra which is a competitor for the best open source application IMO. Previously the only tool for heavy-duty reverse engineering was IDA Pro, which is very expensive (and not open source, of course). The NSA has selfish incentives to have tools like this be open source - free training especially - but it’s still a very good thing.
I don’t know anything about reverse engineering but this seems like fills a void as you mentioned. Thanks for sharing. Is there a fork for Linux?
Ghidra is written in Java which is cross-platform.
Thanks I just read that after editing the post 🤦♂️
Don’t feel too bad. A lot of more complicated Java programs utilize JNI with platform-specfic code, so even if you knew it was Java, it’s not a given that it works on Linux - especially given the incredibly complicated nature of decompilation, and that Ghidra has a DSL to define processors/“languages”.
It works natively on Linux