cff-version: 1.2.0
message: >-
  To cite the Awesome REA collection itself, use this metadata. It does not
  cite the papers, tools or other works listed in the collection: cite those
  from their own primary sources. When citing scan-derived counts, give the
  commit or snapshot date they come from.
title: Awesome Reverse Engineering Anything
type: dataset
version: 0.12.0
date-released: 2026-10-17
authors:
  - name: Awesome REA
abstract: >-
  A bilingual (English and Simplified Chinese) collection of
  source-reviewed tools, reconstruction cases and research papers for
  reverse engineering websites, games, apps, native binaries, firmware and
  communication protocols, with a separate automated index of scanned
  repository READMEs.
url: https://awesomerea.org/
repository-code: https://github.com/reacher-z/Awesome-REA
license: MIT
keywords:
  - reverse engineering
  - decompilation
  - binary analysis
  - firmware analysis
  - protocol analysis
  - awesome list