How to Install and Uninstall cyberchef Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: June 26,2024

1. Install "cyberchef" package

This tutorial shows how to install cyberchef on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cyberchef
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cyberchef" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall cyberchef on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                cyberchef
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cyberchef package on Kali Linux

Package: cyberchef
Version: 10.8.2-0kali1
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Kali Developers
Installed-Size: 42778
Homepage: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Filename: pool/main/c/cyberchef/cyberchef_10.8.2-0kali1_amd64.deb
Size: 15880560
SHA256: 00ba7f8c456d7fed25a1940d490791ed752b66cfabd6f7b0b93e56948d8d5719
SHA1: af372b1c13211bce2c66140c9d79bc73c999b79a
MD5sum: ced26b04d392fbc68eba1776237ae339
Description: Cyber Swiss Army Knife
This package contains a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner
of "cyber" operations within a web browser. These operations include simple
encoding like XOR and Base64, more complex encryption like AES, DES and
Blowfish, creating binary and hexdumps, compression and decompression of data,
calculating hashes and checksums, IPv6 and X.509 parsing, changing character
encodings, and much more.
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The tool is designed to enable both technical and non-technical analysts to
manipulate data in complex ways without having to deal with complex tools or
algorithms. It was conceived, designed, built and incrementally improved by an
analyst in their 10% innovation time over several years.
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