Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor

A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

An online copy of the manual can be accessed here: solemnwarning.net/rehex/manual/ (opens in a new tab).

Features

• Large (1TB+) file support
• Decoding of integer/floating point value types
• Inline disassembly of machine code
• Highlighting and annotation of ranges of bytes
• Side by side comparison of whole files or selections
• Lua scripting support ([API reference](http://www.solemnwarning.net/rehex/luadoc/))
• Virtual address mapping support
• Support for common text encodings (ASCII, Unicode, ISO-8859-X, etc)
• Import and export of Intel HEX files
• Bitmap data visualisation
• Binary Templates for automatically annotating data (similar to 010 Editor)
• Bit editing/manipulation
• Checksumming of files/selections

Debian

First, you will need to download my APT signing key to your system:

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg \ https://solemnwarning.github.io/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg

Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg] http://repos.solemnwarning.net/debian/ CODENAME main deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg] http://repos.solemnwarning.net/debian/ CODENAME main

NOTE: Replace CODENAME with the version you're running (e.g. trixie or bookworm).

Finally, you can install the package:

$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install rehex

Ubuntu

First, you will need to download my APT signing key to your system:

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg \ https://solemnwarning.github.io/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg

Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] http://repos.solemnwarning.net/ubuntu/ CODENAME main deb-src [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/solemnwarning-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] http://repos.solemnwarning.net/ubuntu/ CODENAME main

NOTE: Replace CODENAME with the version you're running (e.g. noble for 24.04 or resolute for 26.04).

Finally, you can install the package:

$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install rehex

NOTE: Ubuntu users must have the "universe" package repository enabled to install some of the dependencies.

Fedora

$ sudo dnf copr enable solemnwarning/rehex $ sudo dnf install rehex