CyberChef
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CyberChef is a web-based application created by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. It is designed to enable both technical and non-technical users to encode, decode, encrypt, decrypt, and otherwise manipulate data in various ways.
Wide Range of Operations: CyberChef offers hundreds of operations that covers encoding/decoding, hashing, cipher functions, data analysis, and more.
User-Friendly Interface: It provides a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows users to apply multiple operations in a sequence, which it refers to as a "recipe".
No Installation Required: Being web-based, CyberChef doesn't require any installation and can be run directly in the browser.
Open-Source: The code for CyberChef is open-source, welcoming contributions and modifications from the community.
Data conversion between different formats (e.g., Base64, HEX, ASCII)
Encryption and decryption of data using a variety of algorithms
File analysis and extraction of metadata
Compression and decompression of data
Cybersecurity analysis tasks, such as analyzing malicious code or scripts
To start using CyberChef, simply visit its or where you can also download it for offline use.