Rail Fence
by Classic Ciphers and Encodings in Other
Rail fence (zigzag) transposition cipher encode or decode with 2 to 20 rails; letters and digits only by default.
https://text-ciphers.x402tookit.com/rail-fence- Price
- $0.02
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 70.6%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 546 ms
- 1.7 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 10 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://text-ciphers.x402tookit.com/rail-fence
Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Polygon, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://text-ciphers.x402tookit.com/rail-fence?rails=3&text=WE+ARE+DISCOVERED.+FLEE+AT+ONCEParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
mode | string | No | encode (default) or decode |
rails | integer | Yes | Number of rails, 2 to 20 |
raw | string | No | true to keep spaces and punctuation as characters on the fence (default: letters and digits only, upper-cased) |
text | string | Yes | Plain or cipher text (up to 1000 characters) |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"asOf": "2026-10-11T14:31:58.902Z",
"degraded": false,
"disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.",
"input": "WE ARE DISCOVERED. FLEE AT ONCE",
"mode": "encode",
"notChecked": [
"security: a rail fence has only a few hundred possible keys",
"offset (starting phase) variants of the cipher",
"…1 more"
],
"output": "WECRLTEERDSOEEFEAOCAIVDEN",
"prepared": "WEAREDISCOVEREDFLEEATONCE",
"rails": 3,
"reasons": [
"Educational cipher, trivially breakable: do not use it to protect real secrets.",
"Spaces and punctuation were removed and letters upper-cased before encoding, the usual textbook convention."
],
"secure": false,
"source": "computed locally (classical ciphers)",
"summary": "rail fence (3 rails) encode: WECRLTEERDSOEEFEAOCAIVDEN",
"verdict": "ENCODED"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://text-ciphers.x402tookit.com/rail-fence?rails=3&text=WE+ARE+DISCOVERED.+FLEE+AT+ONCE'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://text-ciphers.x402tookit.com/rail-fence?rails=3&text=WE+ARE+DISCOVERED.+FLEE+AT+ONCE' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftext-ciphers.x402tookit.com%2Frail-fence
const res = await pay("https://text-ciphers.x402tookit.com/rail-fence?rails=3&text=WE+ARE+DISCOVERED.+FLEE+AT+ONCE");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://text-ciphers.x402tookit.com/rail-fence?rails=3&text=WE+ARE+DISCOVERED.+FLEE+AT+ONCE")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 h ago | Passed | 402 | 623 ms | $0.02 |
| 23 h ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 131 ms | - |
| 35 h ago | Passed | 402 | 546 ms | $0.02 |
| 47 h ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 107 ms | - |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 613 ms | $0.02 |
Show 10 older checks
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 1.7 s | $0.02 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 520 ms | $0.02 |
| 4 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 91 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 187 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 217 ms | - |
| 5 days ago | Passed | 402 | 617 ms | $0.02 |
| 5 days ago | Passed | 402 | 497 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 605 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 579 ms | $0.02 |
| 6 days ago | Passed | 402 | 501 ms | $0.02 |