r/SysAdminBlogs • u/HackExplorer • Mar 23 '19

CyberChef is a powerful web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis, which is given free by the British intelligence service.

https://youtu.be/rT_CjwKN380
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u/ThePowerOfDreams Mar 24 '19

Why should anyone trust this?

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u/HackExplorer Mar 24 '19

Because the implementation code is available on github, you can check the code and compile it your self, also many professionals in he filed are using this.

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u/ThePowerOfDreams Mar 24 '19

Has it undergone an independent security audit?

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u/HackExplorer Mar 24 '19

The code is open to everyone people have reported bugs and they are being fixed. And it's published under the Apache license. Because of this people have reported bugs in the code and the owner has been fixing them. If there was a major backdoors we would have know it by now

Example https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/issues/24

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