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diff --git a/gnu/packages/engineering.scm b/gnu/packages/engineering.scm index 4db8109249..73fea26695 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/engineering.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/engineering.scm @@ -1310,12 +1310,20 @@ bindings for Python, Java, OCaml and more.") (native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config))) (home-page "https://radare.org/") - (synopsis "Portable reversing framework") + (synopsis "Reverse engineering framework") (description - "Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable commandline -hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing -binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb -servers, ...") + "Radare2 is a complete framework for reverse-engineering, debugging, and +analyzing binaries. It is composed of a set of small utilities that can be +used together or independently from the command line. + +Radare2 is built around a scriptable disassembler and hexadecimal editor that +support a variety of executable formats for different processors and operating +systems, through multiple back ends for local and remote files and disk +images. + +It can also compare (@dfn{diff}) binaries with graphs and extract information +like relocation symbols. It is able to deal with malformed binaries, making +it suitable for security research and analysis.") (license license:lgpl3))) (define-public asco |