Add existing encodings/ciphers from Ciphey

[SkeletalDemise]

This is a list of all the currently supported encodings/ciphers in Ciphey. We need to make them in Rust for Ares to achieve feature parity.

Encodings

• [x] Base2 (Binary)
• [ ] Base8 (Octal)
• [ ] Base10 (Decimal)
• [x] Base16 (Hexadecimal)
• [x] Base32
• [x] Base58 Bitcoin
• [x] Base58 Flickr
• [x] Base58 Ripple
• [x] Base58 Monero (Not in Ciphey)
• [ ] Base62 #137
• [x] Base64
• [x] Base64 URL
• [ ] Base69
• [ ] Base85
• [x] Citrix CTX1 (Not in Ciphey)
• [ ] Z85
• [ ] ASCII Base85
• [x] Base91
• [x] Base65536
• [ ] ASCII
• [x] Reversed text
• [x] Morse Code
• [ ] DNA codons
• [x] Atbash
• [ ] Standard Galactic Alphabet (aka Minecraft Enchanting Language)
• [ ] Leetspeak
• [ ] Baudot ITA2
• [x] URL encoding
• [ ] SMS Multi-tap
• [ ] DMTF
• [x] A1Z26
• [ ] Prisoner's Tap Code
• [ ] UUencode
• [ ] Braille (Grade 1)

Ciphers

• [x] Caesar Cipher
• [ ] ROT47 (up to ROT94 with the ROT47 alphabet)
• [ ] ASCII shift (up to ROT127 with the full ASCII alphabet)
• [ ] Vigenère Cipher
• [ ] Affine Cipher
• [x] Railfence Cipher (Not in Ciphey)
• [ ] Binary Substitution Cipher (XY-Cipher)
• [ ] Baconian Cipher (both variants)
• [ ] Soundex
• [ ] Transposition Cipher
• [ ] Pig Latin

Modern day cryptography

• [ ] Repeating-key XOR
• [ ] Single XOR

Esoteric languages

• [ ] Brainfuck

Compression Methods

• [ ] GZip

[RESDXChgfore9hing]

binary bytes type base 62 quick reference.https://www.codeproject.com/articles/1076295/base-encode

[bee-san]

binary bytes type base 62 quick reference.https://www.codeproject.com/articles/1076295/base-encode

There's a broken PR for that here :D https://github.com/bee-san/Ares/pull/137 If you're interested please feel free to try and fix it 🙏🏻 <3

[gregorni]

ASCII85 and Base85 are the same encoding, just different names. Maybe one of them should be removed from the list to avoid confusion.

[SkeletalDemise]

ASCII85 and Base85 are the same encoding, just different names.

That's false, they're different. ASCII85 refers to Adobe's variation of base85. They're separate functions in Python.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85#Adobe_version

Adobe adopted the basic btoa encoding, but with slight changes, and gave it the name Ascii85.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/base64.html

base64.a85encode(b, *, foldspaces=False, wrapcol=0, pad=False, adobe=False)
Encode the bytes-like object b using Ascii85 and return the encoded bytes.

base64.b85encode(b, pad=False)
Encode the bytes-like object b using base85 (as used in e.g. git-style binary diffs) and return the encoded bytes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34969947/what-is-the-difference-between-a85encode-and-b85encode

[gregorni]

Oh, right, I forgot how many implementations of Base85 there are. Perhaps we should specify it's the Adobe implementation of Base85 up there, for extra clarity.

[gregorni]

With ciphers that require a password, like Vigenère Cipher, how is that done? Is the password just brute-forced?

[SkeletalDemise]

With ciphers that require a password, like Vigenère Cipher, how is that done? Is the password just brute-forced?

Yes, a Vigenere cracker needs to be implemented. Here's an example of one: https://www.guballa.de/vigenere-solver That's the best one that I know of. How it works: https://www.guballa.de/bits-and-bytes/implementierung-des-vigenere-solvers

[gregorni]

A lot of ciphers require you to know the key with which the message was encoded. We should write a crate for brute-forcing keys, and use that among all the cipher crates.

[gregorni]

For Vigenere and XOR, I found these two algorithms:

• https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust/blob/master/src/ciphers/vigenere.rs
• https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust/blob/master/src/ciphers/xor.rs

[Reginald-Gillespie]

Not sure if it's worth a whole issue or not but eventually instead of guessing/brute forcing the password, I think there should be a flag to provide a known password, then ares could only go over ciphers with passwords using the provided password.