Hardware Podcasts

045 - Rizin and Cutter

Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast · 15 Feb 2021 · 1h 21m

What this episode covers

Florian Märkl and Itay Cohen, core developers of the open-source reverse engineering tools Rizin and Cutter, discuss the project's history, technical architecture, and community governance. They explain how Rizin, a fork of radare2, provides a command-line framework while Cutter offers a graphical interface, detailing workflows for static analysis, decompilation, and binary patching. The conversation covers the technical rationale for the fork, including stability and community toxicity issues, and highlights features like emulation, plugin-based architecture, and support for diverse processor architectures.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Products
Chiaki
Chips
RISC-V
Tools
Rizin, Cutter, radare2, IDA Pro, Ghidra, Frida, Wireshark, objdump, Meson
Also
Unity

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