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Everything Hiew can do, Rizin[1] can do too, and is completely free and open source[2] under LGPL3 license. Moreover, it supports more architectures, platforms, and file formats, as well as GUI in Qt - Cutter[3][4]. If something is missing in Rizin but presented in Hiew, please let us know by opening the issue with details.

[1] https://rizin.re

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin

[3] https://cutter.re

[4] https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter

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Other stuff you might be interested in

- Ghidra SRE (https://ghidra-sre.org/) from NSA

- https://frida.re/

- https://x64dbg.com/ (spiritual successor of OllyDbg for Windows)

- https://github.com/eteran/edb-debugger (spiritual successor of OllyDbg for Linux)

- https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk

- https://github.com/kentavv/binary_viewer (spiritual successor of Cantor Dust)

- https://dogbolt.org/ (decompiler explorer)

Not free, but from a small family-owned business - the classical hex editor used for reverse engineering by your favorite three letter agency:

010 Editor

https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/

I've been looking for something like this.

Says not a three letter agency ;)

Thank you for mentioning this. I’ve had the most success with 010 Editor for find-and-replace across very large binaries and text files (100MB - 4GB). It seems much more performant than other text editors, much more than even favorite ones close to my heart like Sublime.

thanks for the links! especially the spiritual successor of Cantor Dust ;p

Don’t forget http://binary.ninja :)

It is not free

Does Rizin have a straight-up console hex editor? It looks great for reversing executables, but sometimes I just want to edit some binary data.

Yes, for example, `p` commands for printing and `w` commands for writing, visual hex editor (`VP`), and bit-level editor modes. There is room for improvement, but I already used it to reverse unknown firmware formats, so it's usable in that regard.

You can even explore various histograms with `p=?` and `p==?` commands (they will print help for these).

That sounds very promising, thanks!

I didn't realize radare2 had been forked to rizin. Haven't played around with it for a while.

I must say I am impressed with how far Cutter had come. I will need to try it out again. I am partial to BinaryNinja because it is written by folks I was colleagues with.

Is there x86-x64 assembler? If so, I would have put that on the front page...

Sorry for the late answer. Yes, there is. We hoped a Keystone-based[1] plugin would be a better alternative since it's based on the LLVM code, but the project looks abandoned now[2].

[1] https://github.com/keystone-engine/keystone/

[2] https://github.com/keystone-engine/keystone/issues/560

This is my found of the day!

Thank you!

Very excited to give this a try!

Except demanding political allegiance to its ‘license’.

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