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Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

82 mentions on Hacker News by 76 people: 21 stories, 61 comments · first 2019-03-05 · latest 2026-06-24

Mentions per year 82 mentions · busiest year 2019 (17)
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  1. ▲ 4
    What's New in Ghidra 10.0
    story by stefan_ · 2021-06-24 · 1 comment
  2. ▲ 1
    Ghidra 10.0 Released
    story by Lord_Nightmare · 2021-06-23 · 0 comments
  3. Also home to Ghidra, a very popular free open source reverse engineering tool: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra As far as I'm aware, there is only one tool that is better (IDA Pro), which requires a ~3k/year license.
  4. …modes, but maybe it's improved? This Github bug summarises the problem I was having with it: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/201
  5. ▲ 1
    Ghidra – NSA's Open-Source Software Reverse Engineering Framework
    story by AbdHicham · 2021-01-06 · 0 comments
  6. …open source tool, NSA Ghidra can also navigate sources, and decompile assembly back to C code. See https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
  7. …with this seeing as it is entirely free. Also, it is as if people forget the launch of Ghidra; https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/6
  8. ▲ 1
    The NSA just released the preview version of the Ghidra Debugger
    story by p0z3t · 2020-12-21 · 0 comments
  9. …I had turned 'showdead' on. [0] https://mklein.io/2020/12/17/protect-against-s3-breaches/ [1] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/debugg... [2] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/debugg...
    comment by Normille · 2020-12-17 · in Why Is This Person Not [Shadow] Banned?
  10. …the debugger. Stay tuned for more on the Dynamic Analysis Framework soon after the 9.2 release. [0] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/24#i...
    comment by molticrystal · 2020-11-14 · in Ghidra 9.2
  11. …now a year old. Is that just because of the journal delay? Here are the radare2 and Ghidra reports: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/657 https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/14223
  12. …The best example I can think of is Ghidra from the NSA, which was formally classified. See https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master... , parts of it are not the work of the government and not public domain.
  13. …any issue tracking it. There's an open PR, #1505[1], that might provide people what they need. [0]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/19#i... [1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/pull/1505
    comment by roblabla · 2020-04-10 · in IDA Home is coming
  14. …is already developed & now being tested in-house. It will likely be released in 9.2.x. [1] [1] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/24#i...
    comment by ship_it · 2020-04-10 · in IDA Home is coming
  15. …looking into ghidra. It's open source, so you can peak under the hood and see how it does things. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
  16. …the NSA released Ghidra[2] (reverse engineering framework). [1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ [2] https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
  17. …patches from the community, tracking issues, etc. I think this will progress forward quite quickly. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
  18. I believe this has now been released. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/tree/master...
    comment by archgoon · 2019-04-08 · in Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine
  19. 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…
    comment by archgoon · 2019-04-07 · in Ghidra Decompiler Analysis Engine
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    Ghidra Source Code
    story by SpaceInvader · 2019-04-05 · 0 comments
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    Ghidra source code officially released
    story by killyp · 2019-04-04 · 7 comments
  22. There's enough source code provided that I was able to patch the Java code to fix a bug: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/2#is... While there's no source for the decompiler, the decompiler binaries themselves are…
  23. Of course. In the meantime I posted patched binaries to the relevant issue: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/2#is... As soon as the code is up I hope to submit a PR, which will be pretty easy since I already have the…
    comment by nneonneo · 2019-03-06 · in Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
  24. For anyone else curious: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/wiki/Freque... > This repository is a placeholder for the full open source release. Be assured efforts are under way to make the software available here. In the…
  25. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by SEJeff · 2019-03-06 · in Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
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    Ghidra Software Reverse Engineering Framework
    story by Errorcod3 · 2019-03-06 · 0 comments
  27. …under the License. Merged contributions from private contributors are released under the License. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...
    comment by MileyCyrax · 2019-03-06 · in Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
  28. RCE included ;) https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/6
    comment by Semaphor · 2019-03-06 · in Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
  29. …it? edit: Oh, outside contributors of course retain their own copyright. That's what's licenced. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...
    comment by xxpor · 2019-03-06 · in Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
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    NSA Ghidra
    story by aritraghosh007 · 2019-03-06 · 1 comment
  31. …`.zip` with the corresponding source. The source in a more usable form should be posted here soon: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/ (And if not I'm sure the community will reconstitute it)
  32. Download: https://ghidra-sre.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
    comment by twodayslate · 2019-03-05 · in Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool