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What's a working tool/methodology to work cooperatively on the same binary (if possible in parallel), that is proven to work?
I used various methods long ago to share information with others, but not in parallel:
However, none of these were really efficient. I am looking for better methodologies and tools for collaborative work.
Just to expand on @ange's answer, IDA Toolbag is a lightweight solution for collaboration using their "Queues" feature. I have tested that it does work, and I believe it provides all the features you mentioned in your question.
potential (but untested) suggestions:
Dexter is a static android application analysis tool, which has collaboration features. For more information here is their first public talk about this tool: SIGINT12 - Android Analysis Framework.
I'ld like to add these tools to the list :
IDASynergy - A combination of an IDAPython Plugin and a control version system that result in a new reverse engineering collaborative addon for IDA Pro.
OllyMigrate - Most recent tool of all, to migrate between debuggers
MapConv - Import IDA .map files to OllyDbg (labels+comments)
A new tool that's actively developed on github is IDArling (Previously called IDAConnect). According to its developers, Alexandre Adamskiand and Joffrey Guilbon, it's inspired by SolIDArity (which made some noise in 2016 but was never released) and other projects.
It is an IDA python project that although according to maintainers is still a work in progress, already gained a small user base and is quite functional and useable nowadays.
Unlike a lot of other projects, (at least for now, 4th quarter of 2018) it sees commits on a daily/weekly basis. It was also awarded with first prize in 2018's IDA plugin contest.
I have not yet had the pleasure of using it.
I don't see Ghidra in the lists in the other answers, probably because this question was asked in 2013, and Ghidra has only more recently been made available to the public.
Ghidra comes with built-in cooperative working tools. Each user who wishes to cooperate on a reverse engineering project would connect to Ghidra server. This is a simple server that can be run on any computer that these Ghidra users can all access. It provides network storage for the shared project too. It controls user access, provides file versioning, and supports check in, check out and version history. Quite neat.
