[HN Gopher] CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
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CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife
Author : tempodox
Score : 169 points
Date : 2022-09-03 06:52 UTC (16 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| zacwest wrote:
| Open the web inspector in the app and note the console log if you
| want to start on a very elaborate and long easter egg hunt.
| puyoxyz wrote:
| I've used this a lot and it's very helpful; way easier than
| looking up random converters online that may or may not be what I
| want, or figuring out what the terminal command for what I want
| is (if there is one)
| jim_kreggis wrote:
| Shame it doesn't change URL for different tools, would be useful
| for bookmarking
| fourfourthree wrote:
| Bookmarks are supported, but they work with input and recipe.
| I.E.:
|
| https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=To_Base64('A-Za-z0-...
|
| A use case could be to build a recipe to encrypt a message with
| your public key. Post the link on your website, now anyone can
| click the link and encrypt a message to you.
| 8organicbits wrote:
| Becareful with that approach. I saw a company that used the
| QR generator function to setup MFA/TOTP codes on phones. I
| filed a bug since they were sending the TOTP seeds to a third
| party. It's a little silly in this case, since cyberchef is
| open source and the seed shouldn't leave the browser, but
| it's still a third party and it's easy to generate the codes
| in your own page.
| gchq-7703 wrote:
| It should be set up to change the URL hash field with each
| different recipe you create. For instance, the URL for
| 'From_Base64' is:
|
| https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=From_Base64('A-Za-z...
|
| Let us know if it's not working on your device, :)
| jim_kreggis wrote:
| Cheers brother
| speps wrote:
| Actual website: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef
| tempodox wrote:
| That's the hosted web app. If you download the distribution,
| you can run it locally.
| kekebo wrote:
| Previous discussions:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056254 (6 years ago, 785
| points, 139 comments)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767183 (3 years ago, 394
| points, 59 comments)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29982286 (8 months ago, 392
| points, 54 comments)
|
| Edit: Add dates, remove double entry
| imdsm wrote:
| Visit https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef and try this: U U D D L R
| L R B A
| wh33zle wrote:
| What do you mean by "try this"? Is "U U D D L R L R B A" some
| kind of shortcut combination?
| dano wrote:
| Ha ha, great one. Thank you.
| gkbrk wrote:
| It is the Konami code.
| wh33zle wrote:
| Ha, that is a fun Easter egg :)
| saagarjha wrote:
| Check the console for another one.
| jonas-w wrote:
| It doesn't seem to work for me?
| boilerupnc wrote:
| Don't use the letters, use your arrow keys to represent
| (U)p, (D)own, (L)eft, (R)ight and 'B' and 'A'
| respectively. e.g. ||||---- B A
|
| Love it. Lots of websites intermittently have included it
| to add some fun to the site. [0].
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code#Uses_outsid
| e_of_vi...
| capableweb wrote:
| I'm annoyed my mouse cursor also didn't get the same effect...
|
| By the way, lots of websites use this shortcut for fun stuff
| (my own applications usually open the internal dev tools when
| you use it, at least for desktop/frontend applications), so you
| should randomly try it from time to time :)
| yupis wrote:
| I was expecting some food ; (
| sen wrote:
| One of my most-used web-based tools. Down the bottom of the list
| are a lot of very useful generic file/media/string conversion
| tools too.
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