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Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by tacLog » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

techwind wrote: post #8

thunderbong wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CyberChef is free though

The author/s of Dev Utils have actually got a comparison! https://devutils.app/devutils_vs_cyberchef/

I really apricated the honestly about the pros and cons of each.

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by luto » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 6:52 PM UTC

DerekBickerton wrote: post #2

Love how the contributors all have what seems like dedicated accounts with no 'legal name'. Take for example this: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/commits?author=n1474335 n1474335 Great name. In typical GCHQ style they have good OPSEC. You can find more contributors here: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/graphs/contributors d98762625 s2224834 Among others :)

afaik those are user IDs of Chinese(?) messengers. Devs or others there like to use those as usernames because the are (of course) mostly unique and also enable others to easily contact them.

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by mathnmusic » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:07 PM UTC

I recently started building an offline, desktop app in Flutter as a collection of dev utilities: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/devtoolbox

Flutter was a promising choice as it'd give me Windows, Mac OS and Linux build from a single codebase - and even the possibility of orgs running this internally as a self-hosted webapp. But one of the ideas I had was to bundle CyberChef with my app and open in a webview. Turns out, Flutter doesn't support webviews on desktop platforms at all. https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/devtoolbox/issues/4

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by raesene9 » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

luto wrote: post #12

DerekBickerton wrote: post #2

Love how the contributors all have what seems like dedicated accounts with no 'legal name'. Take for example this: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/commits?author=n1474335 n1474335 Great name. In typical GCHQ style they have good OPSEC. You can find more contributors here: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/graphs/contributors d98762625 s2224834 Among others :)

afaik those are user IDs of Chinese(?) messengers. Devs or others there like to use those as usernames because the are (of course) mostly unique and also enable others to easily contact them.

I don't think in this case it'll be messenger IDs (and if it is definitely not chinese) as GCHQ is the UK's equivalent of the NSA.

They're a pretty secretive bunch, when they present in person they don't use real names, and if you go to their headquarters you have to leave all electronics at the door (did a talk there once and had to buy myself an analog watch for the day!)

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by raesene9 » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:12 PM UTC

I'm a great fan of cyberchef, really easy for quick chaining of decoding techniques to look at various types of data.

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by that_guy_iain » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

luto wrote: post #12

DerekBickerton wrote: post #2

Love how the contributors all have what seems like dedicated accounts with no 'legal name'. Take for example this: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/commits?author=n1474335 n1474335 Great name. In typical GCHQ style they have good OPSEC. You can find more contributors here: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/graphs/contributors d98762625 s2224834 Among others :)

afaik those are user IDs of Chinese(?) messengers. Devs or others there like to use those as usernames because the are (of course) mostly unique and also enable others to easily contact them.

They're defo not Chinese. GCHQ is part of UK Intelligence. They also have the $id@publicemail.provider to hide their emails too.

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by smoldesu » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:16 PM UTC

This is actually very useful. I've been spending the past few weeks working on a cross-platform, native dev assistant app like this written with GTK3 and Rust. It's been a really good exercise in designing meaningful GUIs and, well, usable code. I don't have anything to show right now, but when I get it to an MVP state I'll be sure to share it with everyone!

I'm curious to hear what things people want to see out of an app like this. What utilities are you constantly Googling for that you'd rather have on your desktop?

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by dang » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

softblush wrote: post #9

Past discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056254

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767183 - Aug 2019 (59 comments)

CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20543810 - July 2019 (1 comment)

CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099687 - Dec 2016 (1 comment)

CyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army Knife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056254 - Nov 2016 (139 comments)

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by chrisweekly » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:26 PM UTC

This sounds like a useful tool based on the comments, but the site is completely unusable on my iPhone. :/

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by alias_neo » Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 7:26 PM UTC

I run it in my "homelab". It's all very well self contained. The UX could use some work, but I think it's a case of function over form.

I'm still looking for my ultimate hex editor (TUI/GUI) for offline use. Not been impressed with any of the many options I've tried on Linux.