CipherTool

About

Command line interface gui tool for encrypting and decrypting files or standard input using several different ciphers

Project by: Finn, JJ & James

The repository is split into: a source code directory containing all the source code and make files to buld the project; a test suite to test the project, which also includes a continous integration bash script to be run on the project before committing to the repository and a binary folder which contains pre-built binaries for windows and linux systems.

Help

Usage: cipher_tool [OPTION] --gui/--input-file=IN_FILE
Options:
  -c, --cipher=CIPHER           cipher to encrypt/decrypt with defaults to XOR
  -d, --decrypt                 tool will decrypt the input
  -e, --encrypt                 tool will encrypy the input default
  -g, --gui                     use the tool with gui
  -h, --help                    shows this message
  -i, --input-file=IN_FILE      file to read input data from required when not using gui
  -k, --key=KEY                 key used by some ciphers defualts to random key
                                see Ciphers for specific info on keys required for each cipher
  -o, --output-file=OUT_FILE    file to write output data to defaults to same as IN_FILE

Ciphers:
  XOR           KEY of any length as a string
  AES           KEY of any length as a string
  OTP           KEY of length equal to or greater than data as a string
  Caesars       KEY as an integer
  ROT13         no KEY taken
  Vigenere      KEY of any length as a string

Install

1. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/finn1y/CipherTool.git

2. Navigate to the bin directory

3. Run the binary for your system:

   Linux

   ./cipher_tool-linux64 --gui
   

   Windows

   .\cipher_tool-win64.exe --gui
   

4. Happy encrypting!

Build your own binary

To build your own binary you must have make on your machine.

1. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/finn1y/CipherTool.git

2. Navigate to the src directory
3. Run:

make all

4. Navigate to the bin directory
5. Run:

./cipher_tool --gui

6. Happy encrypting!