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cifer mit Homebrew installieren
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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Work on automating classical cipher cracking in C
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- cifer
- cifer-dict
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
cifer is a small C command-line toolkit for classical cryptanalysis: affine, Vigenere, Bacon, rail-fence, columnar transposition, frequency analysis, buffers, dictionaries, and scripting-oriented shell commands.
Projektgeschichte
The 1.2.0 source tarball identifies cifer as copyright 2008 by Simrun Basuita and Daniel Richman. Its bundled CHANGES file records an initial 1.0.0 release on 2008-11-29, several maintenance releases in late 2008, and 1.2.0 on 2009-03-10.
The project lived on Google Code and is now represented by the Google Code Archive, which makes it a preserved example of pre-GitHub open-source Unix CLI packaging.
Adoptionsgeschichte
Homebrew packages cifer 1.2.0 from the Google Code Archive storage tarball and bottles it for macOS and Linux. The Homebrew formula metadata carries a Linux linker-order patch and a readline dependency adjustment, showing the package has been kept buildable despite the upstream project being archival.
Homebrew analytics are very small, with single-digit recent monthly install-on-request counts, so cifer is best understood as a niche historical/security utility rather than a broadly adopted modern security tool.
Wie es verwendet wird
The cifer manpage describes an interactive shell with script support. Users load ciphertext into buffers, apply filters, run frequency analysis, brute-force or solve supported classical ciphers, and use cifer-dict to build dictionaries for dictionary-assisted attacks.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
For package maintainers, cifer is interesting because it is an archived Google Code-era C program that Homebrew still builds, bottles, patches on Linux, and tests by invoking the binary. It is the kind of small historical CLI that survives in package managers long after its original hosting platform disappeared.
Zeitleiste
- 2008: cifer copyright year and authorship recorded in the bundled README.
- 2008-11-29: Initial 1.0.0 release recorded in CHANGES.
- 2008-12-17: 1.1.0 added libreadline support.
- 2009-03-10: 1.2.0 released, later used as the Homebrew stable version.
- 2016: Google Code Archive became the long-term home for Google Code projects after Google Code Project Hosting shutdown.
Related projects
- cifer-dict is the companion executable shipped with cifer for creating dictionaries used by cifer's dictionary-assisted cracking commands.
- Homebrew's cifer formula is the active packaging surface that keeps the archived source buildable on current macOS and Linux systems.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 13 Plattformziele verfügbar.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
cifer | cli | globales Executable | |
cifer-dict | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
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Seite generiert2026-08-04
Manager-Version1.2.0
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
https://code.google.com/p/cifer/
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://code.google.com/p/cifer/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:cifer |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cifer |
| Homepage | https://code.google.com/p/cifer/ |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://code.google.com/p/cifer/ |
| Lizenz | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/cifer/cifer-1.2.0.tar.gz |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | cifer |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
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