- noun: spiritual knowledge; mystical enlightenment.
- noun: the act or process of knowing.
Gnosis performs in-memory decryption of the contents of encrypted RGSSAD archives (as used by the RPG Maker series) to binary strings via a class representing the archive. Encrypted archives may be searched for specific contents which can then be decrypted to a string -- perfect for implementing custom Ruby game players by converting the binary string directly into an IO instance with the Ruby StringIO class present in the standard library.
$ gem install gnosisThis library has been designed to help facilitate the loading of the RPG Maker series' encrypted RGSS archives for alternative game players written in a compliant Ruby implementation. As such, Gnosis simply decrypts the requested contents of encrypted RGSSAD archives as binary strings which are intended to be used for loading resources, not for writing them to disk.
Gnosis exists to ease the development of alternatives to the native Game.exe files given by the RPG Maker series by default -- it is not designed to encourage piracy of encrypted resources.
In short, ethical usage of Gnosis is your responsibility as a user, not the library itself.
The decryption algorithms used by this library are based upon algorithms previously released by Porkness for a fork of the OpenRGSS project with specific modifications for this library.
Unfortunately, the original source of these algorithms could not be located -- please open an issue if you know the original source so they can be properly attributed.
Gnosis is made available under the terms of the LGPL version 3 license. See the included LICENSE file for more information.