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The best Ciphey alternatives

3 tools that do a similar job to Ciphey, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Ciphey

Paste encoded or encrypted text and it works out the layers and shows the plaintext, no key needed.

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    Juice Shop

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.3k

    A deliberately insecure web shop for practicing finding and exploiting security flaws.

    Best for: Security students learning web vulnerabilities hands-on; Trainers running awareness workshops or demos

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    Anoma

    Open source · MIT · ★ 33.6k

    Reference implementation of the Anoma protocol, written in Elixir, for running a node.

    Best for: Developers who want to read or contribute to a reference implementation of the Anoma protocol; Engineers studying distributed systems or peer-to-peer node software written in Elixir

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    Bitcoin Core

    Open source · MIT · ★ 90.6k

    Software that runs a full Bitcoin node: it downloads and checks the whole Bitcoin network's history itself.

    Best for: People who want to verify Bitcoin transactions themselves rather than trust a third party; Developers working on or testing the Bitcoin protocol software

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Ciphey. We don't take payment for placement.