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This page is an index of helpful tools used to solve the puzzles typically found in ARGs, including ciphers, audio encoding, and steganography.

ARG Training

ae27ff

http://ae27ff.challenge.pt/

ae27ff is a series of puzzles that use the typical techniques of most ARGs. They get more difficult the higher you go. Made by Discord user crashdemons.

ARGvent

~~http://gamedetectives.net/argvent/~~

~~A daily series of puzzles over advent, with varying difficulty. Created by the GameDetectives admins.~~ Over for now, will possibly back next year.

Levels

http://levels.your-host.xyz/

A series of puzzles designed to introduce people to ARG solving. They range from easy to very hard. Levels can be gained through active participation on the official forum.

Watching You

https://stvjsmrs.wordpress.com/

Originally forming part of an ARG, the site now houses two series of puzzles - the originals, and a cancelled Advent version. Made by Discord users in Team Look In The Bushes.

Last transmision

http://last.boxfish.ink

A short, interactive, slightly creepy story made by Discord user mai(#9088). Will put your basic puzzle solving skills to the test.

Layton World

https://layton.world

A new arg-style puzzle solving extravaganza by the makers of Professor Layton! Solve puzzles to earn collectables, some which can transferred to the next game that will be released July 20! Ends around the end of September.

Text-based Tools

a2x2

https://a2x2.github.io/link/

A tool that will guess what site a link identifier could belong to given the length. Made by Discord user A4.

Anagrams

http://anagramscramble.com/ Word de-scrambler

http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/obfuscation-tools/word-scramblerunscrambler/ Word scrambler

Ascii85

https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/ascii85_decode/

Decodes ascii85 messages. (there's a version for encoding as well)

asciitohex

http://www.asciitohex.com/

Converts ASCII to hex and vice versa, as well as to other number-based encryption methods.

Ave Maria Cipher

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Trithemius-Polygraphiae-71.jpg

Ave Maria cipher.

Browserling

https://www.browserling.com/tools/

Lots of encodings and encryptions.

Chaffing & Winnowing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winnowing http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Chaffing.txt

Everything you need to know about Chaffing and winnowing.

Cryptii

https://cryptii.com/text/text

Site with a lot of ciphers.

CryptoCrack

https://sites.google.com/site/cryptocrackprogram/

Has a lot of classical ciphers and more.

Cryptomathic

http://extranet.cryptomathic.com

EMV tag search. TLV (Tag, Length, Value) byte strings into their constituent tags and sub-tags. Useful for analysing APDU traces, responses and so on. CAP calculator. Features many more features.

Cryptool-Online

http://www.cryptool-online.org

Features enciphering (enigma, navajo, vigenere), encoding (ASCII, Code39, Huffman), text analysis, etc.

Crypto-Tools

https://github.com/Hegz/crypto-tools

Set of crypto-tools.

CyberChef

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

MULTIPLE methods of enciphering/encoding, uses more complicated methods and can have more processes going on at once.

Darkfader

https://www.darkfader.net/toolbox/convert/

Online conversion utilities.

Dcode

http://www.dcode.fr/tools-list

Contains a list of mathematical problem calculations, encodings, encryptions, and many more.

HTTP Referrer Extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/En-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

An extension for Firefox to help find HTTP referrers.

Kryptographiespielplatz

https://www.kryptographiespielplatz.de/index.php?

List of a lot of ciphers. (It's in german, but common sense is enough. Test them out on the part where it says [ausprobieren]

Linux Command Line Encode / Decode

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897439.aspx

Use linux command line strings to encode and decode.

md5hashing

https://md5hashing.net/hash_type_checker

Allows you to decode many variations of MD5 and Sha ciphers.

Omniglot Conscripts

http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/english.htm

Has a list of alternate fonts that can be used for writing english.

OPENPGP

http://openpgp.org/software/

PGP and GPG downloads.

PharmaBraille

https://www.pharmabraille.com/pharmaceutical-braille/the-braille-alphabet/

Contains a detailed list of the Braille alphabet, including numbers and punctuation.

Polygraphic Substitution Systems

http://www.umich.edu/~umich/fm-34-40-2/ch7.pdf

Breaking polygraphic substitution systems.

RICHKNI

http://www.richkni.co.uk/php/crypta/freq.php

Word frequency analysis, can be really useful for substitution ciphers with no key.

Rumkin

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/

Contains big list of ciphers.

SNOW Whitespace

http://www.darkside.com.au/snow/

Whitespace steganography.

SpamMimic

http://spammimic.com/

Hides a message in what appears to be a harmless block of spam.

The Black Chamber

http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/chamberguide.html

Has a set of text enciphering and encoding methods.

WeChall Encryption tools.

https://www.wechall.net/tools/

Features JPocketKnife, a conversion tool, JDicTac, a bruteforce for homemade ciphers and hashes, etc.

Wikibruce

http://ref.wikibruce.com/hub

For text encryption, it features ROT-n, Hexadecimal, Binary, ASCII, Morse, Pattern Recognition, and separating byte data to 8 bit planes.

Xlate

http://cyber.meme.tips/xlate

Multiple methods of encoding, including a personalized radix, or base, decoding. (Supports Base 2 - 36)

XOR / Byte Shift

http://otp22.com/xlate/shifts.html

Is used to show all 255 XOR and Byte Shift instances.

Audio Analysis

DTMF Decoders

http://www.teworks.com/dtmf.htm

and

https://www.djsoft.net/smf/index.php?topic=3512.0

Allow for the decryption of Duel Tone Multi-Frequency audio files.

Fldigi

https://fedorahosted.org/fldigi/wiki

An alternative mirror can be found here.

A program that can encrypt/decrypt many different kinds of audio encryption. However, it is not user friendly.The User Manual can be found here.

Audacity

http://www.audacityteam.org/

A free audio editing software. Can create spectrograms of audio.

RX-SSTV

http://users.belgacom.net/hamradio/rxsstv.htm A program that deciphers SSTV encryption on audio tracks.

Sonic Visualizer

http://sonicvisualiser.org/

A free program used to create spectrograms. Generally considered to be better than Audacity when doing so.

WavePad FFT

http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/fft.html

A program for analysing the spectral content of audio.

Image Analysis

Binvis.io

http://binvis.io/#/

A tool that gives a visual representation of binary files.

Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer

http://exif.regex.info/

Allows you to view the metadata of images.

FotoForensics

http://fotoforensics.com/

Image metadata and Error Level Analysis.

RawPixels

http://rawpixels.net/

A website that visualizes .raw files.

Jhead

http://mirror.otp22.com/jhead

Hosted by the creator of ae27ff; allows for the viewing of jpeg headers, abnormalities, and outgress output.

FutureBoy

http://futureboy.us/stegano/

Allows to compare the differences of two images, and unlock steganography with passwords.

GIMP

https://www.gimp.org/

A free photo editor. A great alternative to Photoshop.

Tinkercad

https://www.tinkercad.com/

A web-based 3D-modeling program.

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 ==Text-based Tools==
-===Cyberchef===
+===a2x2===
+https://a2x2.github.io/link/
+A tool that will guess what site a link identifier could belong to given the length. Made by Discord user A4.
+===Anagrams===
-https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
+http://anagramscramble.com/                                                     Word de-scrambler
+http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/obfuscation-tools/word-scramblerunscrambler/ Word scrambler
+===Ascii85===
+https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/ascii85_decode/
-Includes tools to decipher B64, MD5, and other related hashes.
+Decodes ascii85 messages. (there's a version for encoding as well)
 ===asciitohex===
@@ Line 56: / Line 68: @@
 Converts ASCII to hex and vice versa, as well as to other number-based encryption methods.
-===Rumkin===
+===Ave Maria Cipher===
+http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Trithemius-Polygraphiae-71.jpg
+Ave Maria cipher.
+===Browserling===
+https://www.browserling.com/tools/
+Lots of encodings and encryptions.
+===Chaffing & Winnowing===
-http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winnowing
+http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Chaffing.txt
-Has tools to decipher many common encryption methods, including Caesar and Vigenere ciphers.
+Everything you need to know about Chaffing and winnowing.
 ===Cryptii===
-https://cryptii.com/text/select
+https://cryptii.com/text/text
-An MIT site that decrypts many encryption methods, including Enigma and hex.
+Site with a lot of ciphers.
-===The Black Chamber===
+===CryptoCrack===
+https://sites.google.com/site/cryptocrackprogram/
+Has a lot of classical ciphers and more.
+===Cryptomathic===
-http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/chamberguide.html
+http://extranet.cryptomathic.com
-A compendium of different text-based ciphers.
+EMV tag search. TLV (Tag, Length, Value) byte strings into their constituent tags and sub-tags. Useful for analysing APDU traces, responses and so on. CAP calculator. Features many more features.
-===md5hashing===
+===Cryptool-Online===
-https://md5hashing.net/hash_type_checker
+http://www.cryptool-online.org
-Allows you to decode many variations of MD5 and Sha ciphers.
+Features enciphering (enigma, navajo, vigenere), encoding (ASCII, Code39, Huffman), text analysis, etc.
-===Xlate===
+===Crypto-Tools===
-http://otp22.com/xlate
+https://github.com/Hegz/crypto-tools
-A multibase data translator made by the creator of ae27ff, crashdemons.
+Set of crypto-tools.
-===Shift/XOR Report===
+===CyberChef===
-http://otp22.com/xlate/shifts.html
+https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
-Made by the creator of ae27ff, allows the visualization of all possible 256 byte shifts.
+MULTIPLE methods of enciphering/encoding, uses more complicated methods and can have more processes going on at once.
-===OtpXor===
+===Darkfader===
-https://github.com/otp22/decoders/tree/master/OtpXor
+https://www.darkfader.net/toolbox/convert/
-Made by the creator of ae27ff, allows for the xoring of two large files together.
+Online conversion utilities.
-===XorJ===
+===Dcode===
-https://github.com/crashdemons/XorJ
+http://www.dcode.fr/tools-list
-Made by the creator of ae27ff, allows for the xoring of two relatively small files together.
+Contains a list of mathematical problem calculations, encodings, encryptions, and many more.
 ===HTTP Referrer Extension===
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 An extension for Firefox to help find HTTP referrers.
-===HxD===
+===Kryptographiespielplatz===
-http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
+https://www.kryptographiespielplatz.de/index.php?
-Hex editor/viewer. A very useful alternative to Notepad.
+List of a lot of ciphers. (It's in german, but common sense is enough.
+Test them out on the part where it says [ausprobieren]
-===CryptoCrack===
+===Linux Command Line Encode / Decode===
-https://sites.google.com/site/cryptocrackprogram/
+http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897439.aspx
-A cipher decryption program. However, it doesn't always work, so use at your own discretion.
+Use linux command line strings to encode and decode.
-===Cheat Engine===
+===md5hashing===
-http://www.cheatengine.org/index.php
-While it is commonly used for cheating in games, it is a very helpful memory viewer and editor.
+https://md5hashing.net/hash_type_checker
-===Enigma Machine Emulator===
+Allows you to decode many variations of MD5 and Sha ciphers.
-http://enigma.louisedade.co.uk/
+===Omniglot Conscripts===
-A fully working emulator of the German Enigma encryption machine.
+http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/english.htm
-===a2x2===
+Has a list of alternate fonts that can be used for writing english.
-https://a2x2.github.io/link/
-A tool that will guess what site a link identifier could belong to given the length. Made by Discord user A4.
+===OPENPGP===
-===dCode===
+http://openpgp.org/software/
-http://www.dcode.fr/tools-list#cryptography
+PGP and GPG downloads.
-Includes tools to decipher various cipher.
 ===PharmaBraille===
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 Contains a detailed list of the Braille alphabet, including numbers and punctuation.
+===Polygraphic Substitution Systems===
+http://www.umich.edu/~umich/fm-34-40-2/ch7.pdf
+Breaking polygraphic substitution systems.
+===RICHKNI===
+http://www.richkni.co.uk/php/crypta/freq.php
+Word frequency analysis, can be really useful for substitution ciphers with no key.
+===Rumkin===
+http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/
+Contains big list of ciphers.
+===SNOW Whitespace===
+http://www.darkside.com.au/snow/
+Whitespace steganography.
+===SpamMimic===
+http://spammimic.com/
+Hides a message in what appears to be a harmless block of spam.
+===The Black Chamber===
+http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/chamberguide.html
+Has a set of text enciphering and encoding methods.
+===WeChall Encryption tools.===
+https://www.wechall.net/tools/
+Features JPocketKnife, a conversion tool, JDicTac, a bruteforce for homemade ciphers and hashes, etc.
+===Wikibruce===
+http://ref.wikibruce.com/hub
+For text encryption, it features ROT-n, Hexadecimal, Binary, ASCII, Morse, Pattern Recognition, and separating byte data to 8 bit planes.
+===Xlate===
+http://cyber.meme.tips/xlate
+Multiple methods of encoding, including a personalized radix, or base, decoding. (Supports Base 2 - 36)
+===XOR / Byte Shift===
+http://otp22.com/xlate/shifts.html
+Is used to show all 255 XOR and Byte Shift instances.
 ==Audio Analysis==