python-codext VS Ciphey

Unbase (part of the 0-dependency library CodExt), is a tool for encoding/decoding a large variety of base encodings that relies on an AI algorithm to decode multiple layers of base encodings. Note that, when installing CodExt, it is shipped with many handy baseX CLI tools.

Ciphey seems to have a better performance and covers a broader scope covering decoding but also cipher and hash cracking. However, CodExt support far more encodings and is therefore better at guess-decoding.

CyberChef is definitely a wonderful tool, but codext supports some other encodings that CyberChef doesn't. Codext also features guessing and has CLI tools shipped with its Python packege.

Debase is part of CodExt and supports maybe twice or thrice as many different base encodings than BaseCrack. Moreover, CodExt is almost zero-dependency while BaseCrack relies on many third-party libraries, whose exactness is not always proved.

I tried both ; codext performs better and supports far more base encodings than basecrack.

Maybe CodExt might help too for some of your use cases...

Nice one ! I couldn't solve it with Basecrack but I got it with CodExt...

Python codecs extension featuring CLI tools for encoding/decoding anything

You can do this easily with codext:

Using Python package codext:

I also discovered Ciphey. Neat little tool indeed, but it's being deprecated. It's mentioned in this issue[1] and being replaced with Ares[2]. Neither could decipher this strange encryption[3] I used it on :(

[1] https://github.com/Ciphey/Ciphey/issues/764

[2] https://github.com/bee-san/Ares

[3] "dEFLWWFKQWxRQW16RnkvbTZML0lsdz09" original text is "hacker"

Check Ciphey, I have used several times before and overall it’s great. https://github.com/Ciphey/Ciphey

It can help you detect various encryption and encodings and even decrypt them. Ciphey

I followed the steps here . I am running Python 3.10 (64). When I try to install Ciphey using the instructions, on my cmd prompt I get the following:

repo: https://github.com/Ciphey/Ciphey

if you're looking for something that would decrypt most well-known encodings/ciphers, there's ciphey. but no such thing exists to decrypt every known file type because, if it did, everyone would be using it.