I just published Vsolve - a solver for substitution ciphers. It implements the Jakobsen’s algorithm to perform a bigram analysis of the ciphertext, find the most probable key and get the plaintext without knowing the key. The tool does things that I missed in other tools, mainly it’s: cross-platform - CLI tool written in Rust, extensible - adding a new language is just a matter of adding a config file, and capable - full UTF-8 support, built-in IoC calculator and the list goes on. Read more...

TL;DR: I got pissed with HPLIP not working, then the HP Smart app requiring account registration and reverse engineered the network communication and the HP Smart app to develop a tool called HPSimpleScan written in Go, that can be used to scan (not only) from this printer. In the process I’ve written a Kaitai Struct definition of the long-forgotten DIME format and contributed it to the Kaitai Struct formats repo. Read more...