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Rail Fence

by Classic Ciphers and Encodings in Other

x402 APIPassing, checked 10 h ago

Rail fence (zigzag) transposition cipher encode or decode with 2 to 20 rails; letters and digits only by default.

GET
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

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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+ONCE

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
modestringNoencode (default) or decode
railsintegerYesNumber of rails, 2 to 20
rawstringNotrue to keep spaces and punctuation as characters on the fence (default: letters and digits only, upper-cased)
textstringYesPlain 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 --decode
JavaScript: 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)

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