This project utilizes the python cryptography module. The program encrypts / decrypts a file / entire directory with a unique encoded 32-byte key, which makes the files unrecoverable without the private key.
- This project is not intended for any illegal use.
- I will not be responsible for any damage / data loss caused by the use of this program.
cd files-encrypter/
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
The algorithm uses a base64-encoded 32-byte key to encrypt & decrypt data, which must be kept secret. So in order to get started, the key must be generated first.
This command generates a unique key in the current directory.
python3 main.py -a keygen
IMPORTANT!! Make sure you have generated a key, before start encrypting / decrypting.
By default, the program first calls the activate() method, which reads the key and initializes the Crypt class.
Different flags can be passed to perform different operations.
the -a flag can be either:
- encode
- decode
- keygen
example
-f ./data.txt
-d ./data/
- Encode all the files in
./data/directory
python3 main.py -a encode -d ./data/
- Encode the file named
./data.txt
python3 main.py -a encode -f ./data.txt
- Decode the file named
./data.txt
python3 main.py -a decode -d ./data.txt
IMPORTANT Make sure that you're using the same key that was used to encode when decoding, otherwise, the data will NOT be recovered.
Author: Sam Goto