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Ciphey – Automated Decryption Tool

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Encrypting sensitive information saves privacy from malicious people but this cannot be fully saved. Many automated tools have the potential to decrypt the encrypted message or string. Ciphey is an automated tool that decrypts and decodes multiple base encodings, classical ciphers, hashes, or more advanced cryptography. Ciphey tool is developed in the Python language and available on the GitHub platform. This tool is free and open-source to use. Ciphey tool also provides the feature to pass the input in the form of the text file with multiple encrypted strings.

Note: Make Sure You have Python Installed on your System, as this is a python-based tool. Click to check the Installation process: Python Installation Steps on Linux

Installation of Ciphey Tool on Kali Linux OS

Step 1: Use the following command to install the tool in your Kali Linux operating system.

git clone https://github.com/Ciphey/Ciphey.git

Step 2: Now use the following command to move into the directory of the tool. You have to move in the directory in order to run the tool.

cd Ciphey

Step 3: You are in the directory of the Ciphey. Now once again navigate to ciphey directory.

cd ciphey

Step 4: Now use the following command to run the tool and check the help section.

ciphey --help

Working with Ciphey Tool on Kali Linux OS

Example 1: Basic Usage

ciphey -t "xfmdpnf up hffltgpshfflt"

In this example, we have decrypted the string specified in the “-t” flag.

Example 2: Input from File

ciphey -f input.txt

In this example, we have specified the encrypted string in the input.txt file.

Ciphey tool has decrypted the string available in the input.txt file.


Last Updated : 28 Nov, 2021
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