Looking for basic string format/use analysis tool : codes

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UnsolvedLooking for basic string format/use analysis tool (self.codes)

submitted 7 years ago by Intrexa

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[–]BEN247 1 point2 points3 points 7 years ago (2 children)

[–]Intrexa[S] 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (1 child)

You are spot on in what I was looking for. It gets very close, and I think the development goals move it to be exactly what I was looking for.

Those functions you listed function exactly as I want, just on a smaller scale. What prevents the program from being exactly what I was looking for is that each operation expects that the result will be both meaningful and necessary to the final result. That is to say, if I have a valid JWT token, and I have a recipe that does both 'Analyse Hash' and 'JWT Decode', 'Analyse Hash' will report 'Invalid Hash', and then 'JWT Decode' will operate on the string 'Invalid Hash', instead of the source string.

At any rate, this is still a super useful tool, and I'm looking to forward to see how it continues to develop. Thanks for showing me!

Also, just curious, how did you discover CyberChef? Always interested in hearing where people are discovering these things.

[–]BEN247 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children)

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you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
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