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puyoxyz
I’ve used this a lot and it’s very helpful; way easier than looking up random converters online that may or may not be what I want, or figuring out what the terminal command for what I want is (if there is one)
imdsm
Visit https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef and try this: U U D D L R L R B A
wh33zle
What do you mean by "try this"? Is "U U D D L R L R B A" some kind of shortcut combination?
gkbrk
It is the Konami code.
wh33zle
Ha, that is a fun Easter egg :)
saagarjha
Check the console for another one.
dano
Ha ha, great one. Thank you.
capableweb
I'm annoyed my mouse cursor also didn't get the same effect...

By the way, lots of websites use this shortcut for fun stuff (my own applications usually open the internal dev tools when you use it, at least for desktop/frontend applications), so you should randomly try it from time to time :)

sen
One of my most-used web-based tools. Down the bottom of the list are a lot of very useful generic file/media/string conversion tools too.
jim_kreggis
Shame it doesn't change URL for different tools, would be useful for bookmarking
fourfourthree
Bookmarks are supported, but they work with input and recipe. I.E.:

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=To_Base64('A-Za-z0-...

A use case could be to build a recipe to encrypt a message with your public key. Post the link on your website, now anyone can click the link and encrypt a message to you.

8organicbits
Becareful with that approach. I saw a company that used the QR generator function to setup MFA/TOTP codes on phones. I filed a bug since they were sending the TOTP seeds to a third party. It's a little silly in this case, since cyberchef is open source and the seed shouldn't leave the browser, but it's still a third party and it's easy to generate the codes in your own page.
zacwest
Open the web inspector in the app and note the console log if you want to start on a very elaborate and long easter egg hunt.
still_grokking
How long? I've rushed through to #12 and it seems still simple. (You do always the same things up until now).

But how many "challenges" are there?

I don't want to spent the whole day decoding files even it seems kind of funny.

Besides that, really great tool! Didn't know about it until now.

lightspot21
Hah, I've reached 12 too and I'm currently stuck there with no idea how to move forward....
yupis
I was expecting some food ; (