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Pros and Cons of Rust for Cybersecurity
But, due to the young ecosystem, Rust isn't often the best choice for the 2nd category. There are exceptions: while working on a ROP exploitation CLI tool, I was surprised to find the top 3 fastest x86-64 disassemblers are all written in Rust. But other languages just have more mature security ecosystems. Python in particular has some amazing libraries like scapy and bindings for yara.
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What are some alternatives?
osmini - Mini operating system with a graphical interface, for x64 platforms, in Rust and Assembly [just started]
ts7200 - A high-level emulator for the TS-7200 Single Board Computer, as used in CS 452 - Real-Time Programming at the University of Waterloo
yara-python - The Python interface for YARA
martypc - An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust.
iced - Blazing fast and correct x86/x64 disassembler, assembler, decoder, encoder for Rust, .NET, Java, Python, Lua
cross - “Zero setup” cross compilation and “cross testing” of Rust crates
x64asm - Library to write x64 Assembly code from Rust, more properly. Designed for the nasm assembler
lineiform - A meta-JIT library for Rust interpreters
rp - rp++ is a fast C++ ROP gadget finder for PE/ELF/Mach-O x86/x64/ARM/ARM64 binaries.
bfc-rs - Brainfuck compiler for x86-64 Linux implemented in Rust.
disas-bench - X86 disassembler benchmark
cross - “Zero setup” cross compilation and “cross testing” of Rust crates [Moved to: https://github.com/cross-rs/cross]