some of my self-made tools i've used to make silly puzzles

albeit, they're pretty simple tools and translators, but i just hate it when someone makes a puzzle and its just text in binary, base64 or hexadecimal.

so i'll use this page to document my fun ways of doing these little fun ""encryptions"".

be warned, if you do want to look at these, you might be spoiled for the puzzles that are actually in this site, but if my hints really are that horrigble then i guess you could steamroll the puzzles with these

this tool takes a 3 inputs

• plaintext
• key
• salt

and gives you back the hash of your key (SHA256), and the ciphertext (using AES256 CBC) of your input encoded with a salted hash of your key!

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key

salt

plaintext

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i use this to make "secure" clientside puzzles!

since i know people are going to look at the code to bypass the puzzle, i use this to make it more secure

function checkPassword(password) {
	const salt = "idfkkkkk blahblah";
	const secret = "fdcaa034...continues for miles";

	if (sha256(password) == "5e884898...") { // checks if the password is correct
		// decrypts secret with salted hash and runs secret code!!!
		const script = aes256Decrypt(secret, sha256(password + salt));
		
		// or just use eval()
		eval(script);
	};
}

the salted hash is never given out, and you cant really do much with only the password's hash and having the salt in plaintext

if someone tries to bruteforce the puzzle then props to them, they win, idfk

either because they suuuper smart or they just took a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long time

demo :

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and if you need a tool to check what you wrote, here:

the Stuff™

key

salt

this tool takes a string and converts it to text that looks like keysmash or bottom spam or whatever

it works by turning your string into a number, and converting that number into base 9 using letters from the home row keys of a keyboard

if there are any bloclks of contiguous letters, letters from Not The Home Row will be used to break them up to look more natural

it is also prefixed with "sk" kinda how hexadecimal literals are prefixed with "0x" (its like a small hint that it contains something instead of being regular keysmash)

i'm also aware not everyone keysmashes in the homerow or has the same keyboard layout, it just happens to look that way to me for a lot of people.

if you want you can take this code and change your list of homerow keys and breakerChars

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this hides invisible characters between the characters in the carrier text

it just does text-to-binary but as zero width chars, being u200c and u200d, the zwnj and the zwj

i dunno if this has any weird side effects with other text but for the most part it works fine

be careful not to nest things cus you will end up with 8^N chars where N is how far you've nested

each char it adds 8 zw chars

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