The current status of the (de-)assembler project, asm [1], was demonstrated earlier this month during "Pas Sage en Seine 2011", a security and Open Source event held yearly in Paris [2]. The session was about disassembling Android applications in particular [3] and was even filmed [4] (in French though).

It was a good opportunity to release everything necessary to build and use asm, which means:

• libSystem 0.1.6 [5]
• cpp 0.0.1 [6]
• asm 0.2.0 [7]

Additionally, both the cpp and asm projects have already found their way into pkgsrc-wip [8] as wip/deforaos-cpp and wip/deforaos-asm, where they can be packaged for NetBSD, and hopefully most platforms supported by pkgsrc as well.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/15/asm
[2] http://www.passageenseine.org/pes-2011/
[3] http://people.defora.org/~khorben/place/blog/137/Disassembling-Android-applications-at-PSES-2011
[4] http://lacantine.ubicast.eu/videos/pses-disassembling-android-application/
[5] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3527/libSystem-0.1.6.tar.gz
[6] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3542/cpp-0.0.1.tar.gz
[7] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3545/asm-0.2.0.tar.gz
[8] http://pkgsrc-wip.sf.net/