CyberChef from GCHQ: The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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  1. CyberChef

    The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

    It uses a combination of magic bytes (like the `file` command), entropy analysis and character frequency detection to determine whether an output is likely to be of interest to the user.

    The file type mechanism is written here[0]. There's a list of all signatures we detect here[1].

    [0] https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/blob/master/src/core/lib/F...

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  3. Ciphey

    ⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

    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"

  4. Ares

    Automated decoding of encrypted text without knowing the key or ciphers used (by bee-san)

    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"

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