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CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by spydum »

smoldesu wrote: post #17

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 a…

I feel like I am forever having to hack together things to parse json to csv. It feels like there is never an easy path (indeed jq is frustrating, I usually end up just solving in python)

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by baconhigh »

protip: Open the JS console (F12 / inspect) and start the CyberChef challenges!

43 6f 6e 67 72 61 74 75 6c 61 74 69 6f 6e 73 2c 20 79 6f 75 20 68 61 76 65 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 64 20 43 79 62 65 72 43 68 65 66 20 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65 20 23 31 21 0a 0a 54 68 69 73 20 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65 20 65 78 70 6c 6f 72 65 64 20 68 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 65 6e 63 6f 64 69 6e 67 2e 20 54 6f 20 6c 65 61 72 6e 20 6d 6f 72 65 2c 20 76 69 73 69 74 20 77 69 6b 69 70 65 64 69 61 2e 6f 72 67 2f 77 69 6b 69 2f 48 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 2e 0a 0a 54 68 65 20 63 6f 64 65 20 66 6f 72 20 74 68 69 73 20 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65 20 69 73 20 39 64 34 63 62 63 65 66 2d 62 65 35 32 2d 34 37 35 31 2d 61 32 62 32 2d 38 33 33 38 65 36 34 30 39 34 31 36 20 28 6b 65 65 70 20 74 68 69 73 20 70 72 69 76 61 74 65 29 2e 0a 0a 54 68 65 20 6e 65 78 74 20 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65 20 63 61 6e 20 62 65 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 20 61 74 20 68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 70 61 73 74 65 62 69 6e 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 47 53 6e 54 41 6d 6b 56 2e

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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baconhigh wrote: post #43

protip: Open the JS console (F12 / inspect) and start the CyberChef challenges! 43 6f 6e 67 72 61 74 75 6c 61 74 69 6f 6e 73 2c 20 79 6f 75 20 68 61 76 65 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 64 20 43 79 62 65 72 43 68 65 66 20 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65 20 23 31 21 0a 0a 54 68 69 73 20 63 68 61 6c 6c 65 6e 67 65 20 65 78 70 6c 6f 72 65 64 20 68 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 65 6e 63 6f 64 69 6e 67 2e 20 54 6f 20 6c 65 61 7…

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Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by HWR_14 »

raesene9 wrote: post #14
luto wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!)

Why did you buy an analog watch as opposed to just go without?

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by cormacrelf »

rainonmoon wrote: post #28
BearsAreCool wrote: post #7

I'm a big fan of CyberChef. One of its most useful features is "magic" and turning on "intensive mode". This will automatically detect the encoding used and can often detect 2-3 levels of encoding.

Sometimes it can detect quite a lot more than 2-3 levels! The "magic" function really feels like it earns its name.

If you like that, try FTFY https://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ which can automatically repair a huge range of ways that Unicode text can be broken by re-encoding. This would be a great addition to CyberChef if they could reproduce it in JS.

Classic example from the docs:

> ftfy can fix multiple layers of mojibake simultaneously:

    >>> ftfy.fix_text('The Mona Lisa doesn’t have eyebrows.')
    "The Mona Lisa doesn't have eyebrows."

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by ProtoAES256 »

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.

Chinese messenger ID-as-username mostly starts from q(QQ - counterpart FB Messenger) and s(Sina Weibo - counterpart FB/Twitter). Others(a - admob, b - bilibili etc.) are quite rare tbh so I don't think that's the case here.

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by dang »

imdsm wrote: post #31
dang wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/…

This is perhaps the first repost where using "The" has been successful

We usually take out "The" when it is used as a marketing trope. I missed it this time.

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by b3lvedere »

ethbr0 wrote: post #4
vaibhavsagar wrote: post #3

I was hoping this might be about the Victorinox Cyber Tool, which is actually a Swiss Army Knife: https://www.victorinox.com/global/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Kni...

Because I knew it had to exist. Thanks for not letting me down, Victorinox. https://www.swissknifeshop.com/collections/usb-flash-drive-s...

I have one of its predecessors (2GB USB 2.0 flash drives). Costed around $60 back then and it was worth it. There's hardly a day i don't use it.

After a very long time of daily usage one of the knifes broke. Totally my own fault. I sent Victorinox an email to thank them for their excellent product that lasted a long time of abuse. They replied to mail the thing to them so they could get it repaired for free. Everything was replaced, except the flash drive. Awesome thing, awesome service!

Re: CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

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Post by raesene9 »

HWR_14 wrote: post #45
raesene9 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!)

Why did you buy an analog watch as opposed to just go without?

I wanted to know what time it was for things like how long till my talk starts and how I was doing for timing. :)
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