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Interested in how this project works?

Suggestions and edits are welcome 👻

This project is built using NodeJS.

Node uses other packages also called modules available at repositories which can be installed via a command.

The default package manager is npm.

The file structure used here is

keygen.js - Used to generate the public and private keys and export them as public.txt and private.txt files.
decrypt.js - As the name suggests it is used to decrypt the files using the public and private keys.
index.js - It is used to encrpyt the data. Remember how we entered our details and got out an encrypted string? This is the file that does that

Working

Generating public and private keys

P.S. Executing this line would break the code. As in your encrypted text would be encrypted via a different key. Do on a separate branch and do NOT raise a PR!

DO NOT EXECUTE IF YOU WANT A STICKER

node keygen.js

This generates a new set of public and private keys at the root of the project called you guessed it - public.txt and private.txt.

Encrypting

  • Have a look at package.json under the scripts section you can find address. Whenever you run npm run address it means run the command corresponding to the address script, which is node index.js.

  • Here we use the inquirer package to gather information and store it as answers.

  • We then read the public.txt file using the fs package and encrypt the answers using this public key.

Decrypting

  • Have a look at package.json under the scripts section you can find test, which is node decrypt.js.

  • We read the private.txt file using the fs package and also the file you've written into. Please note currently its test.txt. This then reads the data and decrypts the encrypted string into your address.

I guess that is it.

Happy coding.