cryptii
cryptii.com
A modular tool for converting, encoding and decoding text, where you chain together steps such as Base64, Caesar cipher and binary.
Why it is useful
A tidy way to experiment with encodings and classic ciphers. Building a chain of steps makes it clear what each one does.
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