Show HN: REDasm Disassembler 2.0
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This is definitely going in my toolchain of RE apps, alongside x64dbg.
Compare computing to other hobbies. Anything involving cars/boats/motorcycles: expensive. Woodworking, metalworking or anything else that requires a shop: way expensive. It's easy to spend thousands upon thousands on most hobbies every year. In contrast with computing you can do almost anything with very basic tools.
It's great when there are high quality free tools out there. But most of the time these free products get abandoned or are left unfinished. It's hard to get a community of volunteers to do the schleppy maintenance work for 20 years when the product is already feature-complete. And that's why we should be glad there are commercial alternatives, even if they're a bit pricey.
I guess there aren't student loans for IDA, but there definitely is employment. Once you become competent with IDA, you can apply for jobs like these at my workplace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284153 Being competent means you can navigate around in a binary without symbols, that you can mentally convert assembly to C, and generally that you can find things of interest in the binary and understand them.
Binary Ninja (binja) is $149 from Vector35. That might be optimal for you.
I realize someone's probably going to comment that I'm an idiot for living in the Bay Area, but consider this: after living expenses, I still make a fair bit more than I did in Detroit, and I much prefer living here. So it is what it is.
I think in a few years I should be more than capable of buying an IDA Pro license, but as it stands I am not taking on that debt for a hobby. As for whether or not I will get a job doing reverse engineering, I think it's unlikely any time soon, though certainly possible in the future.
That's a lot more context than I feel is necessary to explain why I can't casually drop $3k-5k on a hobby, but hopefully it makes more sense.
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if i'm reading this right, it looks like $1879 for an individual license of IDA Pro, plus $2629 for each decompiler (a decompiler targets a single OS and architecture). the licenses are perpetual and come with a year of support.
so about $7k just to work with x64 and x86 .exe and .dll files. yikes. but if all you need is disassembly, i guess you're covered with $1879.
I will say that ~$2600 for a named license wouldn't be so bad, though it's certainly nothing I'll be able to casually drop anytime soon.
IDASTACL is $979, getting you a disassembler for 32-bit only. It is possible to add up to 3 decompilers (ppc, x86, arm) for $2629 each. Getting all of this would be $8866. You can't add the two decompilers for 64-bit architectures.
IDAPROCL is $1879, getting you a disassembler for everything. It is possible to add up to 5 decompilers (ppc, x86, arm, x86-64, arm64) for $2629 each. Getting all of this would be $15024.
For hobby use, Binary Ninja for $149 and Hopper Disassembler for $99 are more reasonable choices.
All of these have demo and/or freeware versions available, with IDA having both. Freeware versions are generally limited to x86 and ARM, without a decompiler. Demo versions are generally limited by being unable to save and by a forced quit after half an hour or so.
I’m very interested in this stuff. I tried getting into IDA before I had a good understanding of programming and it was a struggle. I have been thinking about trying my hand at it again lately.
There is no problem btw, I have posted here to see if someone was interested to the project. In any case I will continue to develop REDasm because I use it at work and I need it.
When you see that message, for some reason REDasm cannot generate a path for the current function and it should be fixed.
Someone reported me on Twitter that it compiles fine on a 64-bit OS with Clang.
It doesn't compile with Clang on a 32-bit OS (there is a bug report for that).
I will continue a bit then open an issue with details.
But the OP doesn't answer so I can't fix it
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REDasm is a project that tries to mimic IDAs interface and shortcuts but with a nicer, modern API.
About the quality of x86-64 binaries: it should be pretty good (but far from perfect).
Obviously with more binaries and test cases the quality of the generated listing can be improved!
The release of Ghidra by the NSA has stole some of my attention. Given your expertise, what are your thoughts on Ghidra aside from the source? Thanks!
The UI is a lot 90s/ish and a bit unconfortable to use, but it ships a great decompiler and it can render nice graphs, the quality of the generated listing is good, but inferior compared to IDA's one.
And...Java...
I hope the pricing remains sane once you guys make it big :)