How To Install xortool on CentOS 8

xortool is A tool for XOR cipher analysis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xortool on CentOS 8.

What is xortool

A tool to do some XOR analysis to guess the key length (based on count of equal chars) and to guess the key (base on knowledge of most frequent char).

We can use yum or dnf to install xortool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xortool.

Install xortool on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install xortool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xortool

Install xortool on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install xortool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xortool

How To Uninstall xortool on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the xortool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xortool

xortool Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/xortool
/usr/bin/xortool-xor
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool-0.99-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool-0.99-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool-0.99-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool-0.99-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool-0.99-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool-0.99-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/args.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/args.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/charset.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/charset.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/colors.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/colors.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/libcolors.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/libcolors.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/routine.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/__pycache__/routine.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/args.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/charset.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/colors.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/libcolors.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xortool/routine.py
/usr/share/doc/xortool
/usr/share/doc/xortool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/xortool
/usr/share/licenses/xortool/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xortool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.