BaseCracker

BaseCracker is a tool to encode, decode and crack encoded data. It can be really useful to crack some random encoded strings in CTFs.

Installation

From crates.io:

console cargo install basecracker

Current supported encodings

• base2 / binary (padded by 8)
• base10 / decimal
• hexadecimal
• base32 (RFC4648)
• base36
• base58
• base62
• base64
• base85

Options

``` Encode, Decode and Crack encoded data, useful to crack some random encoded strings in CTFs.

Usage: basecracker [OPTIONS]

Commands: encode Encode given plaintext/file using the specified bases decode Decode given cipher/file using the specified bases crack Crack given cipher/file help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options: -q, --quiet Quiet mode, don't print anything except results -v, --verbose Verbose mode -m, --min-printable-percentage Minimum printable percentage to consider a result valid [default: 0.9] -n, --no-newline Do not output the trailing newline -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version ```

Example

console $ basecracker encode "Awsome CTF tool" b64,b85,hex,b32,b62,b58 2eSHB3WFgFiySPWP47oyrMrT6Vb4WXTEv5ZyWdmWWJNJ4H65n2auRW4ZFutQPtXegrNimoCAeUfiQwMAnb4UYg6grcK2WUCTL9LquGa4564JBJK2jAbRfPVjKx9sCgUVdrsUfyMuMR6MipKYERRr $ basecracker decode 2eSHB3WFgFiySPWP47oyrMrT6Vb4WXTEv5ZyWdmWWJNJ4H65n2auRW4ZFutQPtXegrNimoCAeUfiQwMAnb4UYg6grcK2WUCTL9LquGa4564JBJK2jAbRfPVjKx9sCgUVdrsUfyMuMR6MipKYERRr b64,b85,hex,b32,b62,b58 -r Awsome CTF tool $ basecracker crack 2eSHB3WFgFiySPWP47oyrMrT6Vb4WXTEv5ZyWdmWWJNJ4H65n2auRW4ZFutQPtXegrNimoCAeUfiQwMAnb4UYg6grcK2WUCTL9LquGa4564JBJK2jAbRfPVjKx9sCgUVdrsUfyMuMR6MipKYERRr Recipe: base58,base62,base32,hex,base85,base64 Awsome CTF tool

Verbose mode

Useful if you want to see the steps of encoding/decoding/cracking

```console $ basecracker -v crack 2eSHB3WFgFiySPWP47oyrMrT6Vb4WXTEv5ZyWdmWWJNJ4H65n2auRW4ZFutQPtXegrNimoCAeUfiQwMAnb4UYg6grcK2WUCTL9LquGa4564JBJK2jAbRf PVjKx9sCgUVdrsUfyMuMR6MipKYERRr Recipe: base58,base62,base32,hex,base85,base64 Applying base58: 9Y91a8AfMC1fYZFb6THWx0VBVu1R6BPhFsVhmAksMcKNLIibCXXnDGACS9woBiiuUhmwYgcEHrO4ZjPlvMVUTBxuOkLovyLgGTL2MOCZml9y Applying base62: GUYTIMZUMQ2TMNZQGU3DMYZXGA3TMNTGGRSTMYRXGY2TQNTGGUYTMNRVG43DINTCGU3DMYZXGA3WEMRV Applying base32: 51434d5670566c70766f4e6b76586f516657646b566c707b25 Applying hex: QCMVpVlpvoNkvXoQfWdkVlp{% Applying base85: QXdzb21lIENURiB0b29s Applying base64: Awsome CTF tool

Awsome CTF tool ```

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.