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Making all of these available and chaining all of these together wouldn't be a simple script. It would be a humongous collection of different scripts.


> Making all of these available and chaining all of these together wouldn't be a simple script.

All transformations are readily available in the standard library of a language like Python or Ruby. And note that this CyberChef tool doesn't chain them together either. The user does that. Likewise with a Python or Ruby script.

I guess I can see how this would be useful if you don't know how to code, but I don't know anyone who would be able to use a tool like this who doesn't know how to code.

Also, I can see how this would be useful in the same way that a web app like jsfiddle is useful, to make a quick example to share with others.

In any case, I clearly wrong, since I've been so highly downvoted.


Even if you know how to code, this would still be faster for lots of use cases...


Are you comfortable using a scripting language like Python, Ruby, or Bash, and a shortcut-driven text editor like Vim or eMacs?

Perhaps because I'm skilled at Vim, using Python and Vim is unquestionably quicker for me than using a mouse to drag/paste/click a bunch of boxes around for any imaginable use case. I suppose if you're used to using mouse-driven programming environments like Windows often is used, this might be quicker...




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