[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)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (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:
       | 
       | 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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