Google and Reverse Engineering
March 28, 2016
I don’t want to make a big deal out of the information presented in “Google’s Reverse Engineering Software BinDiff Now Free for Researchers.” The write up reports that Zynamics’ code is now free. The write up explained:
What’s the code’s application? The write up reports:
BinDiff is a comparison tool for scrutinizing disassembled binary files and finding both similarities and differences in code through reverse engineering. The software can be used to identify and isolate flaws and bugs in software, namely, “fixes for vulnerabilities in vendor-supplied patches and to analyze multiple versions of the same binary,” according to Blichmann. Binary files for x86, MIPS, ARM/AArch64, PowerPC, and other architectures can be analyzed with the software.
Are there other uses for this software? The write up identifies a number of benign uses; for example port function names.
The article concludes:
Interested parties can download the software directly from Zynamics.
Stephen E Arnold, March 28, 2016
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