"We created URH to be both, powerful and easy to use" - interview with Johannes Pohl and Andreas Noack creators of Universal Radio Hacker

Hello everyone!

Have you ever heard about Universal Radio Hackers (URH)? It is a software for investigating unknown wireless protocols and one of the most amazing github projects! We had a chance to talk with Johannes Pohla and Andreas Noack who created it. We talked about its features, challenges and how URH grow over the time.

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[Hakin9 Magazine]: Hello Johannes and Andreas! Thank you for agreeing to the interview, we are honored! How have you been doing? Can you tell us something about yourself?

[Johannes Pohl]: I am a PhD student with a strong focus on offensive security. Programming Python is my passion next to working with Software Defined Radios and hacking wireless protocols or dealing with Artificial Intelligence.

[Andreas Noack]: I am a professor for communication systems at the University of Stralsund, dealing with IT security and cryptography for many years now. From my PhD thesis on, I am engaged with wireless security (wireless lan, meshing). Working with software defined radios was quite new to me as I have a strong cryptographic background.

[H9]: Can you tell....

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