shift-tool 2.0

Keyed text encoding

shift

Keyed text encoding

Installation

To install this tool and library, use PIP:

# Install shift
pip3 install shift-tool

# Run shift
shift2

NOTE: the executable is named shift2 not shift.

Usage

Shift has two modes:

# Encode
shift2 /path/to/input/file your_key_here > output.shift

# Decode
shift2 -d /path/to/encoded/file your_key_here > output.txt

Speed

By using Python's cProfile tool, we can see the time required to encode and decode example.txt. This file contains 50 paragraphs generated by lipsum.com, using the key ewpratten:

Encoding:  0.089 seconds 
Deconding: 0.101 seconds

Development

Deploying to PIP

To deploy shift to PIP, use:

pip3 uninstall shift-tool
./deploy.sh
pip3 install --no-cache-dir shift-tool