Photocrypt

The purpose of this project is to encrypt and decrypt photos using the AES algorithm with a one-time use 128-bit AES session key wrapped with 2048-bit RSA encryption.

• Project Synopsis: project_synopsis.md

• Documentation: https://photocrypt.readthedocs.io/

• Github: https://github.com/Kullmann/Photocrypt

• PyPI https://pypi.org/project/photocrypt/

Installation

Package itself

run following command: pip3 install photocrypt

With GUI Application

first, install photocrypt gui dependency using following command: pip3 install photocrypt[gui]

then clone repository: git clone https://github.com/Kullmann/Photocrypt.git

Running

Run GUI Application

from the root directory, run following command:

python3 bin

Run CLI Application

from the root directory, run following command:

python3 bin [-h] [-i image path] [-k key path] [--encrypt] [--decrypt]

arguments:

-h, --help show this help message and exit

-i [image path] image file path to encrypt/decrypt

-k [key path] public key path

--encrypt encrypt given image using provided key

--decrypt decrypt given image using provided key

example usage:

python3 bin -i samples/tuatara.jpg -k public.pem --encrypt

python3 bin -i samples/tuatara_enc -k private.pem --decrypt

Testing

test scripts are available in tests/ directory.

run following command to run tests. python3 tests/<test name>.py

Requirements

photocrypt package requires python3.6 or above.

Known Bugs

• Double encryption is not supported because crypto header is overwritten on encryption.

Contributors

Hosung Lee

Sean Kullmann