https://github.com/johnmanjohnston/data-encrypter

CLI application to encrypt and secure your files with a cryption key, then decrypt them later
https://github.com/johnmanjohnston/data-encrypter

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CLI application to encrypt and secure your files with a cryption key, then decrypt them later

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/johnmanjohnston/data-encrypter
Owner: johnmanjohnston
License: apache-2.0
Created: 2022-12-19T15:23:21.000Z (over 2 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2023-02-10T16:54:50.000Z (about 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2025-01-20T23:47:03.247Z (3 months ago)
Topics: cplusplus, cpp, cryption, decryption, encryption, encryption-decryption, openssl, security, security-tools
Language: C++
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Size: 246 KB
Stars: 0
Watchers: 1
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

README

# data-encrypter
A tool to encrypt your files to prevent people from reading/leaking files.

## Installation
To install, first, clone this git repository:

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/johnmanjohnston/data-encrypter/
```

Next, navigate to the `src/` directory:
```bash
$ cd data-encrypter/src/
```

Create a `build/` directory where the build files will be located, and navigate to it:
```bash
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
```

Next, run CMake to generate the binaries from the source, this would resemble the following:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/97091148/217327692-84a3bc41-fa0c-4208-8128-5ccdca11f63b.png)

Now, we can run the data-encrypter binary file, and encrypt files in a directory. In this example, the directory at `../../demo/` is used

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/97091148/217315458-813b03bf-e21b-46fa-bf02-6095c03b799d.png)

We can see that the file data present in the file in the demo directory is unreadable:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/97091148/217315614-c8717764-be8a-43f8-a1f4-4caff546375c.png)

We can decrypt the file with the same binary, but for a successful decryption we need to use the same cryption key

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/97091148/217315662-07a0c68c-3128-453b-a5c6-0e586bb51afa.png)

On using the same cryption key, we get the orginal text in our file

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/97091148/217315792-60eefd6d-7839-426b-9bf7-9387efe2a74d.png)