Activity of gchq/CyberChef repository

Active 🚀

Active contributions

Why gchq/CyberChef is active?

The result is based on ratio of number of commits and code additions from initial and final time ranges.

Initial time range – from 14 Aug, 2023 to 14 Nov, 2023

Final time range – from 15 May, 2024 to 14 Aug, 2024

From 0 to 1 commits per week

Infinity%

From 49 to 319 additions per week

551%

From 1 to 172 deletions per week

17100%

Data calculated on 14 Aug, 2024

Bus factor

What is Bus factor?

It is basically a number of most active contributors responsible for 80% of contributions.

Bus factor tries to assess "What happens if a key member of the team is hit by a bus?". The more there are key members, the lower the risk.

The gchq/CyberChef repository has a bus factor of 6.

Medium risk, some knowledge concentrated in a few people

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Summary of gchq/CyberChef

The GCHQ/CyberChef is a web app that carries out multiple operations relevant to data analysis and cyber security such as encoding, decoding, compression, and data analysis of varied kinds of data. CyberChef was developed by a British intelligence agency called GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters) and was released as an open-source project.

In other words, CyberChef is a simple, intuitive web application for carrying out numerous cyber operations including hashing, encryption, encoding, as well as other types of cyber data manipulations. It can work offline too, and serves as a useful tool for cybersecurity professionals for quick data conversion and verification tasks.

The operations are carried out in the web browser itself and can handle fairly significant data sizes, with the output data produced instantly for most operations.

Key features:

Drag and drop: Files can be dragged straight onto the page
Save and load recipes (combinations of operations) and input files
Search across all operations and data
Completely client-side
Large number of varied operations
Dynamic updating of output
Operation stacking
Comprehensive help section

This project follows a Code of Conduct. It is licensed under Apache License 2.0. The project is open for contributions. Before contributing make sure to read their contribution guide.