desurveil 0.1.1

a cryptography tool with support for RSA and OAEP

desurveil is a cryptography program with support for key pair generation and encrypting and decrypting with RSA, OAEP, and arbitrary data lengths.

desurveil is both a command line tool and a Python module. It requires Python 3.1+.

License

desurveil is free software under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (or any later version, see file COPYING.txt or webpage http://gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html for full license). The author of desurveil is Niels G. W. Serup, contactable at [e-mail]. This is version 0.1.1 of the program.

Installation

It is not strictly necessary to install desurveil to use it if you only plan to use it as a command line tool. It is still recommended, though. To install it, run:

python3 setup.py install

You must be a superuser to do this.

Use as command line tool

If you have installed desurveil, run:

desurveil COMMAND [OPTION]... [INPUT FILE]...

Else, run this:

python3 scripts/desurveil COMMAND [OPTION]... [INPUT FILE]...

To see how to interact with desurveil, run:

desurveil --help

Use as Python module

When desurveil has been installed, it can be used just like any other Python module. To see which functions and classes are available and usable, run:

pydoc3 desurveil

And also:

pydoc3 desurveil.basemath
pydoc3 desurveil.primes
pydoc3 desurveil.oaep
pydoc3 desurveil.keypair
pydoc3 desurveil.utility

These can be imported with simple import statements.

Development

Development takes place with Git. To get the latest branch, download it from gitorious.org:

$ git clone git://gitorious.org/desurveil/desurveil.git

Logo

The logo (logo.svg) has been released into the public domain.

This document

Copyright (C) 2011 Niels G. W. Serup

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