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Mr. Guilfanov, the founder and CEO of Hex-Rays SA, holds BSc in Mathematics from Moscow State University. He is the senior architect of several highly regarded software packages including the widely used IDA, a multi-platform, multi-processor, disassembler and debugger. Mr. Guilfanov is also known for having released, on 31 Dec 2005, a highly publicized unofficial fix for the Windows Metafile (WMF) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows operating system. He currently lives in Belgium with his wife and his two boys.
ABOUT IDA
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Created 17-Jul-91 by Guilfanov I.
Some history
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First idea about IDA was born in the fall of 1990. It took half an
year to screw up enough courage and to start implementing it. In the
beginning of 1991, in January, first code line was written. In April
1991 the first program was fully disassembled with IDA. IDA grew up and
new ideas appeared. I wanted to create a built-in C-style language to
control analysis of the program, to add more processors, to disassemble
object files, to handle UNIX COFF files, to add more intelligence to IDA
e t c...
Alas, all of this was not implemented. In July 1991 I stopped
working at IDA almost completely, working at IDA only for fun. It was
time to learn more about other computers, networks and other nice
things. Today I would implement something based on client-server
architecture with network support (I have a crazy idea about X-windows
implementation) working under various operating systems - but I won't.
Enough for the moment. I really think that disassemblers and all the
staff like this are becoming obsolete. People work with GUIs, write in
C++ (IDA is written in C++ too, about 40000 lines); they adore
VisualBasic and they debug in source codes. Today's programmer even
doesn't know assembler language - and doesn't need to know it.
But...
I hope that this product will be a help for you. If so, I'm glad.
Hope, there are some people who need a tool like this. And if there is a
need to add a new processor type to IDA (the same was with Intel 8085),
I can do it fast enough.
More history
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08.11.93 I never thought that I would work at IDA again. But you see,
here is a new version. And now I understand that new versions
of IDA will appear...
17.02.84 I'm working on IDA to eat MS Windows executable files now. Hope
that it will come soon!
25.02.94 Now IDA can disassemle New Executable format files.
20.09.94 OS/2 files are supported.
Acknowledgements
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IDA would never be created without ideas and great support of these
nice folks (sorry, it is not possible to mention all the people involved
in IDA here):
