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This project was created while I was a student at Code Chrysalis.

Polyglottal Week

As part of Code Chrysalis's immersive course, students are given one week to write an application using a language that they have never used before. Since I had received a degree in computer science, all the languages that I used in school were off limits.

Lucky for me, Golang was invented after my computer science course, and I had never used it prior to this assignment. I was especially attracted to Golang for the following reasons:

• It has a reputation for being very fast to write, compile, and execute.
• It was developed by rockstars.
• It has all the great features of low-level languages, with the readability of modern high-level languages.

I discovered that all the rumors were true. It was a pleasure learning about Golang. The community is vast. There are a lot of easy-to-use hands-on tutorials. If you have never used Golang, you can get up to speed in no time for this project.

As part of the assignment, I prepared a lecture about why I chose Golang and what I learned about Golang throughout the project. You can check out the Google Slides.

What's the Deal

This is a project to show a variety of encryption algorithms throughout history.

As of now, it includes the following algorithms:

• Ceasar Cipher
• Scytale Cipher

My intention is to include a vast amount of algorithms from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cryptography.

You can see this project in action at https://pretty-sweet-crypto-suite.herokuapp.com/.

Getting Started

If you'd like to get this thing running, fork and/or clone the code onto your local machine and run the following scripts.

Scripts

# Get dev tools together
# This allows hot reloading
go get github.com/oxequa/realize

# Get the project run tools together
go get ./...

# Develop the code with hot reloading [env.PORT || 8000]
realize start --name="server" --run

# Run all tests [including benchmarks]
go test [-benchmem -bench .] ./...

# Run the server on port [env.PORT || 8000]
go run server

Contributing

Thank you for your interest in this project. Feel free to make a PR if you are interested in contributing.