I find CyberChef immensely when I'm doing RE work that for things that I'd otherwise have to write little snippets of code to do. I can get a lot of the simple

I find CyberChef immensely when I'm doing RE work that for things that I'd otherwise have to write little snippets of code to do. I can get a lot of the simple text manipulation stuff done w/ hexdump, cut, tr, sed, etc. I find CyberChef easier to use when I'm doing operations on binary blobs. I particularly like easily doing encryption and decryption. Lately I seem to find many "secrets" (database connection strings, API keys, etc) in software I'm RE'ing stored as base64-encoded AES-encrypted blobs w/ the key sitting right beside them as a base64-encoded blob.