https://github.com/gsingh93/xstrings

Extended Strings searches through a file to find binary, base64, hex, and english word strings. Written in Rust.
https://github.com/gsingh93/xstrings

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Extended Strings searches through a file to find binary, base64, hex, and english word strings. Written in Rust.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gsingh93/xstrings
• Owner: gsingh93
• Created: 2014-05-26T03:01:45.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-04-29T04:07:25.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-02T01:29:42.281Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Rust
• Size: 208 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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This program searches the given file for binary strings, hex strings, and base64 strings. It was created for use in [CTF](https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/) competitions, but may have other uses.

To build, run `cargo build`. `./target/xstrings -h` to see a list of command line options.

TODO

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1. Allow user to customize the match length (i.e. only binary strings longer than five characters).

2. Implement searching for words. Allow the user to optionally specify a path to a dictionary as an argument to -w. Package default dictionary with program.

3. Add an option for not showing duplicate matches. A string could be a valid binary string as well as a valid base64 string. We should add an option to only show unique strings (or make this default and add a --verbose flag to show all duplicates).

4. Add support for searching through multiple files.

5. Implement filters (i.e. output all strings containing only letters).