New features
Many, many, many new features in this release - so many that I'm opting not to include screenshots this time round
Ciphers
- Beaufort cipher
Similar to the Vigenère cipher (the decryption process is the same), except you start with a reversed alphabet - Rail fence cipher
Also known as the Zig Zag cipher, Rail fence takes its name from how the encryption is performed - in analogy to a fence built with horizontal rails - Chaocipher
Chaocipher is an encryption method invented by John F. Byrne in the 1920s. It uses two shifting sets of the alphabet to scramble messages uniquely each time. - Atbash cipher
A simple substitution cipher that takes a string and transforms each letter to its mirror image in the alphabet. For example: A ⇆ Z B ⇆ Y etc
ONI tools
While not exposed in the UI right now, several tools from the Section 3 ruby Toolkit have been ported over to Convrtr. These can be accessed using the web console. Most will require specifically encoded data sets to work correctly
- Unmunge
Unmunges a data node using a given key - Lookahead
Performs a lookahead operation on the data node using the given key - Interleave
Interleaves the characters of two strings, you may optionally pass in a delimiter - Merge Base64
Merges multiple Base64 strings by selecting the most frequent character at each position - Unscramble
Unscrambles a string by interleaving its characters. For example: abcdef → badcfe - Extract strings
Extracts sequences of printable characters from a string, based on a given number of minimum characters. Minimum characters cannot be less than 1 - Calendar
Extracts characters from the data string at specific positions based on calendar-like offsets
Hex tools
Similar to ONI tools, these are not yet exposed in the UI but are available via the web console to try
- Shift Hex Pattern
Shifts the bytes of the input string based on the provided key bytes - Shift Hex Key
Shifts the bytes of the input string based on the provided key
Improvements
- Improved description and example text for various decoders
Behind the scenes changes
This is a list of more technical and non-front-facing changes made to the site
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug with Vigenère cipher, where the shift values were slightly off
- Fixed various typos and grammatical issues
- Fixed copyright year being incorrectly generated at build time on certain platforms