Installer cifer avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• cifer
• cifer-dict

Historique du projet

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.

Historique d'adoption

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.

Modes d'utilisation

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.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

Chronologie

• 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.

Sources

• https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/cifer/cifer-1.2.0.tar.gz
• https://code.google.com/archive/p/cifer
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cifer.json
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/master/Formula/c/cifer.rb