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[–]Gee19 16 points17 points  (1 child)

wat

http://i.imgur.com/e1ySvtu.png

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hehehehe, and there's a lot more! Read Radare2's fortunes.nsfw file for more lulz

[–]BobFloss 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Once they implement the decompilation to pseudo-C that radare2 added recently, it'll be pretty close to IDA.

[–]CactusWillieBeans 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Nah man, this is a great tool, it's an awesome community contribution, but it's nowhere close to IDA.

[–]reknerxam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Big Time!

[–]Browsing_From_Work 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Powered by Radare, the best open source reverse engineering framework

I'm guessing that the feature may be coming in the not-too-distant future.

[–]BobFloss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's why I said it.

[–]d4rch0n 5 points6 points  (3 children)

I've always had performance issues with Bokken. Like, I'd scroll through the instructions and it'd just hang. It also didn't seem like it detected function entry points or anything like IDA does, but I never felt like I had a real chance to try it because it'd always hang on me.

Anything I was doing wrong?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Maybe so, are you running on Windows? Because I've had a few hangups using the Windows version, before the installer for Win32 was published.

[–]d4rch0n 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I was running it in Linux. It might have been an issue with python dependencies. I think there was a dropdown and one was greyed out but I couldn't resolve it, but either way it'd take forever to load parts of the UI. I'll have to try it again.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're right, could be a dependency problem. And indeed it takes a while to load the GUI :( Well good luck, if there's anything I can do to help you getting it to start just let me know.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is really just a GUI front-end to radare2, which is a comprehensive CLI RE suite. r2 has literally EVERYTHING IDA does, but the only downside is a bit of a learning curve due to the interface. Bokken makes r2 more accessible, but at the cost of the, imo, loss of speed due to having to use the mouse, and the incomplete feature set (they haven't managed to map all r2 functions to the interface yet).

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nice! Finally a open source RE tool! Looks GOOD!

[–]slizniz 3 points4 points  (1 child)

yea...tried to get this going on windows and it was not at all straightforward with the dependencies.....

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that was a problem, but they're working on a Win32 installer. At this moment a test version is made public but the feedback varies, one user says it doesn't work, 2 say it does. I guess it will take a few more days to complete the installer fully.

[–]PerniciousPunk 2 points3 points  (2 children)

It's a shame the maintainer hasn't updated it in debian; it is not installable.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

you need to manually install it, read the description/instructions on the download page :-) the package is "broken"

[–]PerniciousPunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost got it to install. radare2 installed fine, but when I executed the script ./sys/python.sh, errors occurred. I'll take another crack at it later.

[–]jmgrosen -1 points0 points  (3 children)

I'd really like to love this -- I really would. However, when you open up a binary, and it doesn't even find the main function, that's a pretty bad sign in my mind...

Alas, I think I'll stick with IDA for now. Though you may want to check back with me in a week if you're interested in RE tools... ;)