gchq/CyberChef
The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
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Where it stands
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2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 50 days ago, with 246 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #23 in the weekly ranking the week of Aug 30, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a web app for encryption, encoding, compression, and data analysis operations within a browser.
- Enables complex data manipulations through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface without requiring coding skills.
- Use for decoding and analyzing encoded or encrypted data in cybersecurity investigations.
- Use for compressing, decompressing, and converting large files up to 2GB directly in the browser.
- Use for creating, saving, and sharing custom data processing recipes for repeatable workflows.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
CyberChef is a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of "cyber" operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR and Base64, more complex encryption like AES, DES and Blowfish, creating binary and hexdumps, compression and decompression of data, calculating hashes and checksums, IPv6 and X.509 parsing, changing character encodings, and much more.
The tool is designed to enable both technical and non-technical analysts to manipulate data in complex ways without having to deal with complex tools or algorithms. It was conceived, designed, built and incrementally improved by an analyst in their 10% innovation time over several years.
CyberChef is still under active development. As a result, it shouldn't be considered a finished product. There is still testing and bug fixing to do, new features to be added and additional documentation to write. Please contribute!
Cryptographic operations in CyberChef should not be relied upon to provide security in any situation. No guarantee is offered for their correctness.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+768 stars over 87 days across 20 snapshot days; best day +13 on Sep 25.
Forks
4.2K+104
Open issues
591+29
Compared with peers in Cryptography
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| MHSanaei/3x-ui | 49.6K | +448 | 52 | 137 days ago |
| XTLS/Xray-core | 42.8K | +205 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| rclone/rclone | 60.9K | +149 | 75 | 4 days ago |
| mitmproxy/mitmproxy | 46.6K | — | 65 | 8 days ago |
| gchq/CyberChef | 36.3K | — | 62 | 50 days ago |
| hummingbot/hummingbot | 21.1K | — | 62 | 48 days ago |
| Category median | 46.6K | +205 | 65 | — |
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