[summerofcode] Project Idea: elf binary library

[Alexander Stante]

Hello,

as an project idea i would have an elf (executable and linking format)
binary library which allows the user to inspect and manipulate elf
binaries. Although there is already a in C written library out there:
http://www.mr511.de/software/english.html I think it would be a
benifit that such a library were written in python.

I came to this idea after spending a lot of time reverse engineering
some, in that case even non elf, binaries. I was using IDA Pro and it
was lacking some features that would really speed up my work so I
start making some thought about something like an open source
equivalent.

An IDA Pro equivalent is not possible to finish in just some month for
the SoC and would be obvoiusly rejected by PSF because it would be
just an application written in python.

But an elflib, which could be expanded in future to some kind of
generic executable binary library that supports other formats like for
example mach-o and so on, could be something like PIL for executables
in the future.

I wonder if the PSF can be a mentoring organization and if someone
would would agree to be a mentor for such a project.

Maybe there are other ideas for an project which would get roughly in
that direction?

Alex