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Default Settings File

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The settings file contains settings for Ciphey. Specifically, some of these you may want:

Regex list. Have a list of Regex’s for the Regex checker? Use the settings file.
Default language. Hate how Ciphey always loads in English? Use the settings file to change the default language to whatever you want.
Is the language checker not working how you want it to work? Fine-tune the details in the settings file.

Default Settings File

Save this as settings.yml in the appdirs location, which can be found by running ciphey -where or –where.

➜ python3 ciphey -where
settings.yml should be placed in /home/bee/.config/ciphey

From this example, we can see that using the argument we need to place the settings file at /home/bee.config/ciphey/settings.yml

The settings file follows a specific format. Copy and paste this below!

---
params:
  regex:
    regex:
    - FLAG{*.}
    - CTF{*.}
    - HTB{*.}
    - THM{*.}
  brandon:
    top1000: cipheydists::list::english1000
    wordlist: cipheydists::list::english
    stopwords: cipheydists::list::englishStopWords
    threshold: 0.45

Default Settings File

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