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by stokedbits 1032 days ago
Advantages over https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/?
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Came to ask the same thing. Save CyberChef for offline use and it does way more than this.
One strong advantage of CyberChef is being cross platform. I use it regularly on my Linux machine at work.

DevToys is Windows only.

That's so interesting, GCHQ! I don't know if that makes me trust it more or less than other random code online. (It's a little like installing some nice free software from the friendly people at the NSA, in case you're unfamiliar.)

I did have a quick look at the repo, in case there were some useful security practices I could learn from. But it's just your standard NPM dependencies with a 20K-line package-lock.json. I wonder if perhaps they don't use it internally. Or if they do, perhaps they shouldn't.

Nice try 4 letter agency, but seriously doesn't look like it's phoning home, unless there is check for opened devtools in browser ;).
My first question was, "Why wouldn't this be a web application?"

Honestly though, this looks nicer than CyberChef

The issue with web applications is that you need to do due diligence to make sure that it won't send any of the data you're pasting in to some remote server. FWIW you need to do this with third party tools in general.
wow! I didn't know how badly I wanted this. Thanks!