bch

bch is a simple implementation of binary BCH error-correcting code, written in Python 3.6. Polynomial operations are implemented using SymPy library. It was made as a homework project for "Error-Correcting Codes and Cryptography" workshops on Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of Warsaw University of Technology.

This package was made as an excercise. It shouldn't be used anywhere to secure data.

How to run?

Install Python 3.x

You should have Python 3.x installed on your system. To do this on Fedora OS you need to execute

sudo dnf install python3

Install dependencies

You should have SymPy, NumPy and docopt package installed.

pip3 install --user sympy
pip3 install --user numpy
pip3 install --user docopt

How to use it?

To print help screen execute bch.py script with -h argument.

$ ./bch.py -h
BCH v0.1

Usage:
  bch.py [options] enc CODE_FILE [FILE]
  bch.py [options] dec CODE_FILE [FILE]
  bch.py [options] gen N B D CODE_FILE
  bch.py (-h | --help)
  bch.py --version

Options:
  -b, --block        Interpret input/output as
                       block stream.
  -i, --poly-input   Interpret input as polynomial
                       represented by integer array.
  -o, --poly-output  Interpret output as polynomial
                       represented by integer array.
  -h, --help         Show this screen.
  --version          Show version.
  -d, --debug        Debug mode.
  -v, --verbose      Verbose mode.

As you can see there are few commands:

• enc - encode file using BCH code
• dec - decode file using BCH code
• gen - generate BCH code with given parameters