A JavaFX Application that encrypts a file using AES encryption.
This application allows you to encrypt a file using the AES encryption algorithm, asking you for a password to use it as its key. During the file transformation process, it's guaranteed that no data is lost: It's never the original file that is encrypted but a copy of it. And during the name changes, if there's already a file with that same name, a new one is used. For example:
- We have the file: Example.pdf
- If we encrypt it, it becomes. Example.pdf.enc
- Now if we decrypt it back, it won't replace the original Example.pdf, it will create a new one named "(1) Example.pdf", incrementing the number inside the parentheses untill it finds an unused file name.
- File encryption (or safely cancel it without crashing the application)
- File decryption (or safely cancel it without crashing the application)
- Select the file using a file chooser
- Friendly graphical user interface showing the progress of the task
- Embedded web browser on the "about" pane that opens this GitHub page
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
It's highly recommended that you edit this project using IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains that can be downloaded here since it was developed using that same tool.
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The icon used was made by: Fabián Alexis CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If you're only looking for the encryption/decryption code without the user interface, you can find it here, fully commented. Usage example:
new FileEncryption("Example.pdf", "MyPaSsWoRd!123", FileEncryption.ENCRYPT_MODE).start();The rest of the project isn't that much commented but it's mainly JavaFX operations.
- Luís Bragança Silva - Initial work
- João Marques Capinha - Initial work
- Pedro Fernandes Costa - Initial work