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Recognizing ciphers by their looks

See a cipher but don't know what cipher it is? This should help you

Note: some ciphers may look like one or more of listed but it might not be it. This is a general guide.




If the cipher looks like...

01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001

it's Binary

124 150 151 163 40 151 163 40 157 143 164 141 154 40 164 145 170 164

it's Octal

84 104 105 115 32 105 115 32 100 101 99 105 109 97 108 32 116 101 120 116

it's Decimal

54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 48 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c

it's Hexadecimal

J5RXIYLMEB2XGZLTEBXHK3LCMVZHGIDBNZSCA5LQOBSXEY3BONSSA3DFOR2GK4TT

it's Base32

QmFzZTY0IHVzZXMgdXBwZXJjYXNlIGFuZCBsb3dlcmNhc2UgbGV0dGVycywgYW5kIG51bWJlcnM

it's Base64

<+oue+DGm>6=FqH3&L

it's Base85

20-8-9-19 9-19 1 20-5-24-20

it's A1Z26

Igkygx ynolz oy g zevk ul yahyzozazout iovnkx

Gsvhv ollp kizxgfzoob gsv hznv

Fmeorcbi sciq k oci

it's probably Caesar Shift or Atbash or Vigenere

#~%cf FD6D C2?5@> AF?4EF2E:@? >2C<D

it's Rot47

AAAABAAAAAAAABAABBBAABBABABAAAAAAAAABBAB ABAAABAABA BABBAAABAAABAAABAAABAAABB

it's Baconian

- .... .. ... / .. ... / -- --- .-. ... . --..-- / .. - .----. ... / -. --- - / -.-. .- ... . / ... . -. ... .. - .. ...- .

it's Morse

+++++ +++[- >++++ ++++< ]>+++ +++++ .<+++ ++[-> +++++ <]>++ +++++ +.<

it's Brainfuck

it's Braille

it's Pigpen

DI BE-TKAH SEIS BE-TKAH A-CHIN BE-LA-SANA A-KEH-DI-GLINI BE-LA-SANA YIL-DOI TLO-CHIN

it's Navajo

Wingdings is a font, if you're reading this just like that, you're missing the font... and I'm too lazy to make a png

it's Wingdings 1

Same goes for Wingdings 2

it's Wingdings 2

Same goes for Wingdings 2

it's Wingdings 3

Same goes for Webdings

it's Webdings

it's Music Sheet cipher