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gchq / CyberChef

The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef
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Bug report: Baking after resolving a ingredient error with a set of multiple operations operates on the wrong data. #329

Closed picapi closed 6 years ago

picapi commented 6 years ago

Summary

When using multiple operations, if an intermediary operation has an error, the first bake after this error is corrected will operate on the error text output, rather than the true given input. This could result in misleading outputs while attempting to operate on data.

Example

Click here and then change the key to become a single character. The expectation would be that the output would be each word in the input enciphered using the key on a different line, but the reality is that the No Key Entered message is enciphered, and remains in the output until a second character is utilised.

n1474335 commented 6 years ago

Thanks very much for raising this @picapi. It was a very easy fix, but it looks like it's been there for a while. Good spot.