Py Cryptography CLI App

Encrypt & decrypt string using cryptography.io

CLI app included in distribution folder (dist/py-cryptography-cli.exe)

Basic Usage

1. Help

py py-cryptography-cli -h

2. Encrypt text/string

py py-cryptography-cli "Hello Python, this is Py Cryptography CLI App"

3. Decrypt token

py py-cryptography-cli "<TOKEN>" -k "<KEY>"

Setup for Local Development

1. Creating a virtual environment

py -m venv venv

2. Activate the environment

.\venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install all of the packages using requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run cli application

py py-cryptography-cli.py -h

5. Build cli output (more refer to : https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/usage.html)

pyinstaller py-cryptography-cli.spec

6. Export a list of all installed packages (Optional)

pip freeze > requirements.txt

7. Leaving the environment

deactivate

Reference Links

• https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html
• https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/usage.html