DESCRIPTION:

There are two funcionalities in this program. The first is a file scrambler which takes a text file and saves it as a scrambled bin file. The second is a file descrambler which reads in the scrambled bin file and descrambles it back to a text file. There is a GUI interface that selects the file to be converted and contains two push bottons and two corresponding QTextEdits. The first button runs the file scrambler code and displays the scrambled file on the first QTextEdit. The second button calls the descrambler program and then displays the descrambled code on the second QTextEdit.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS TO RUN THE PROJECT:

• QT

• The program can be made and executed from the terminal as well as from QT. For references on how to install Qt on various OS, please go to

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/installation.html

• To install QT on a Linux OS the following terminal instruction will download everything needed. Bewarned it is a massive download (174 MB):

    $ sudo apt-get install qt-sdk
  

INSTRUCTIONS:

• From the terminal once in the project directory run the following commands to make and build the project:

    $ qmake -project
    $ qmake
    $ make
  

• There are some test files to try the project in the the TestFiles directory.

• You can click on any of those files and click Scramble or Descramble in the GUI to see both formats of the file.

• Detailed steps on how to use our scrambler/descrambler:

1. Put The descramble File from the repo in a folder, then run the qmake instructions from inside that folder you just created
2. Run the executable that was just created ("./Descrambler")
3. Press file, then open pick a file, press scramble and watch it get encrypted into binary
4. Press descramble to change it back to the original format