Ghidra (pronounced Gee-druh[1]) is a free and open source reverse engineering tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA). The binaries were released at RSA Conference in March 2019, the sources were published one month later on GitHub.[2] Ghidra is seen by many security researchers as a competitor to IDA Pro and JEB Decompiler.[3] The software is written in Java using the Swing framework for the GUI. The decompiler component is written in C++. Ghidra uses Jython so plugins can be developed in Python.[ citation needed ]
Ghidra’s existence was originally (though not legally) revealed to the public via WikiLeaks in March of 2017[4], but the software itself remained unavailable until its declassification and official release two years later.[2]
Aside from a list of supported architectures, that is the entirety of the article. And yet I have so many questions!
I don’t reverse engineer or decompile software, I just want to know more about the leak and any drama. I love NSA drama. 