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random-alphabet-py

Description

A command line tool to encode and decode text using a randomized cipher written in Python.

I do not recommend using this program for any security or privacy critical purposes. I am not specialized in cryptography or security. This is a hobby project that I thought was cool.

Encoding generated with this program is not compatible with RandomAlphabet or vice-versa.

Usage

If installed on your system, you run as randomalphabet with valid arguments from any directory. If not installed, run python3 randomalphabet from this git project root directory.

To view command line arguments and options use randomalphabet -h or randomalphabet --help

Installation

To install without a distro specific package, run make install from the project root directory.

Debian Package

You can install it from my PPA.

On Ubuntu 20.04+ based distros

To add the repository to your system, run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:corruptedark/ppa
sudo apt update

After adding the repository, install the package with:

sudo apt install python3-randomalphabet

On Debian Buster

First install software-properties-common

Then to add the repository to your system, run:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/corruptedark/ppa/ubuntu focal main\ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/corruptedark/ppa/ubuntu focal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/corruptedark.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E2BA18922C0D6991
sudo apt update

After adding the repository, install the package with:

sudo apt install python3-randomalphabet

Red Hat Package

On Red Hat and Fedora based distros you can install the .rpm package once it is released.

Packaging

To build a .deb package, first install the package stdeb either from apt or pip3. Next, run make deb from this project root directory.

To build a .rpm package, first install the package rpmdevtools from dnf. Next, run make rpm from this project root directory.