NSA AND GHIDRA
The National Security Agency (NSA) is no stranger to Open Source, as ironic as that thought may be. They developed and released Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), as well as SEAndroid. Ghidra was first “announced” rather unintentionally, as it was repeatedly mentioned in the Vault 7 leak on Wikileaks. It’s a reverse engineering tool-kit, supporting many architectures and running on Linux, OSX, and Windows. The NSA officially announced Ghidra as a new open source project at the 2019 RSA conference.
The code has yet to be released, but the binaries are available and the full source code will be released as soon as possible. The NSA promises the binaries aren’t backdoored. On a totally unrelated note, running Ghidra in debug mode opens port 18001 to all network interfaces, allowing remote code execution. While suspicion and jokes have abounded, the quality of Ghidra seems quite high, and commercial reverse engineering tool-kits are priced out of the budget of many of us. We look forward to the release of the full source code, and taking advantage of this new tool.
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