Lazy File Encryption in Rust!

Overview

With many of my language projects, I am trying to improve my learning skills and adaptability by coding in programming languages that are new to me.

With this project in particular, I wanted to try out Rust! This is my first Rust project and I may have bitten off a bit more than I could chew. What can I say; I'm ambitious!

Using this terminal application you will be able to specify a path to a file and encrypt or decrypt it (very unsecurely and lazily) using byte shifting.

Here is a video demonstrating its functionality:

Lazy File Encryption in Rust - Demo

Development Environment

As with virtually all Rust projects out there, this program was made using the cargo development environment.

Of course the programming language I used was Rust; the only reason there's a python file in here was to test the byte-shifting algorithm. I used some basic packages in Rust such as fs for file system management, io for reading user input from the console, and io::Write for writing to a file.

Useful Websites

There was a lot of referencing documentation throughout the process of writing this program. Here were a few good sites I found useful:

• Rust Official Documentation
• TUtorialsPoint - Rust

Future Work

Features

• Option to create new file or overwrite passed file
• Option to specify by how many bytes to shift
• Refactor file reading + en/decrypting in separate function
• Turn into command-line application using env::args().collect::<Vec<string>>();