Ghettocrypt CLI
Easy text and file encryption via the command line using Ghetto Crypt. Now supporting esoteric data formats... :)
Again, please only use this as an obfuscator or if the only other option would be no encryption at all.
Do you want to quickly and securely encrypt stuff via the command line? Use openssl-cli with the aes cipher. It's a bit more wordy but much faster and more secure.
Still want to use Ghetto Crypt cli? Here ya go! Either download the latest release, or directly from here: gecrypt.
If you want to use this globally, you could move it to /usr/bin/, or some other location in your $PATH.
How do i use this?
All arguments and flags:
$ gecrypt --help
CLI for the ghettocrypt cipher/obfuscator
Copyright (c) 2022 Leon Etienne
Ghettocrypt v0.21
Ghettocrypt CLI v0.123
THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE AND MUST BE CONSIDERED INSECURE. DO NOT USE THIS TO ENCRYPT SENSITIVE DATA! READ THE README FILES ACCESSIBLE AT "https://github.com/Leonetienne/GhettoCrypt/blob/master/readme.md" AND "https://github.com/Leonetienne/GhettoCrypt/blob/master/GhettoCryptCLI/readme.md"
==== AVAILABLE PARAMETERS ====
--iobase-8 VOID incompatibilities=[--iobase-2, --iobase-10, --iobase-64, --iobase-uwu, --iobase-ugh] Interpret and format ciphertexts in base8
--progress -p VOID Print digestion progress to stdout. May be advisable for large files, as the cipher is rather slow.
--cli-version VOID Will supply the version of ghettocrypt-cli used.
--iobase-ugh VOID incompatibilities=[--iobase-2, --iobase-8, --iobase-10, --iobase-64, --iobase-uwu] Interpret and format ciphertexts in base ugh
--iobase-uwu VOID incompatibilities=[--iobase-2, --iobase-8, --iobase-10, --iobase-64, --iobase-ugh] Interpret and format ciphertexts in base uwu
--iobase-64 VOID incompatibilities=[--iobase-2, --iobase-8, --iobase-10, --iobase-uwu, --iobase-ugh] Interpret and format ciphertexts in base64
--ostdout VOID incompatibilities=[--ofile] Output of digested files will be dumped to stdout instead of a file.
--encrypt -e VOID incompatibilities=[--decrypt] Use the encryption routine.
--infile -if STRING incompatibilities=[--intext] Encrypt this file. Saves as {filename}.crypt, if not specified otherwise.
--version -v VOID Will supply the version of ghettocrypt used.
--keyfile -kf STRING incompatibilities=[--key, --keyask] Read in the first {KEYSIZE}(=512) bits of this file and use that as an encryption key. WARNING: Arguments may be logged by the system!
--iobase-10 VOID incompatibilities=[--iobase-2, --iobase-8, --iobase-64, --iobase-uwu, --iobase-ugh] Interpret and format ciphertexts in base10
--iobase-2 VOID incompatibilities=[--iobase-8, --iobase-10, --iobase-64, --iobase-uwu, --iobase-ugh] Interpret and format ciphertexts in base2
--decrypt -d VOID incompatibilities=[--encrypt] Use decryption routine.
--intext -it STRING incompatibilities=[--infile] Encrypt this string. Dumps to stdout.
--ofile -of STRING incompatibilities=[--ostdout] Use this filename for output if --infile is specified. Gets ignored otherwise.
--keyask -ka VOID incompatibilities=[--key, --keyfile] Read the encryption key from stdin.
--key -k STRING incompatibilities=[--keyfile, --keyask] Use this value as a password to extrapolate the encryption key. WARNING: Arguments may be logged by the system!
Examples
Please note that commonly used arguments are supplied in their short form (-e in place of --encrypt).
I want to encrypt text!
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --intext "hello, world!"
efbebc429c8370bf84f00b0d8ccbaf7858b3b87d71ff58cb1cfefa8fb0c68094c0865565873aa8a5254ede59be46e81a4d4917e679b18cb290dbd6669cb6207a
Now decrypt it
$ gecrypt -d --keyask --intext "efbebc429c8370bf84f00b0d8ccbaf7858b3b87d71ff58cb1cfefa8fb0c68094c0865565873aa8a5254ede59be46e81a4d4917e679b18cb290dbd6669cb6207a"
hello, world!
I won't be pasting in complete ciphertexts anymore here. I will abbreviatre them as efbebc...b6207a. This way it just looks tidier.
What about not using hex?
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --intext "hello, world!" --iobase-2
111001001011100000011111000100010100110011100110000100100101001001110001001000101011110000000011011100001010111010001000110111110110011011100000001100110001001000100111011000101010010001011011111011001000011111100100101001011110011101110001010011000101011001111010000001001100101110000101101101101001110100100001101010111101010000100111101110000110011101100101101011000011101001000011010010011001111010001001101000101001100101010000100010111101101100010000000001001110010001001011001001011011010111001101000100
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --intext "hello, world!" --iobase-8
71134037042463460445116110536003341272106766334014611047305221337310374451363561230531720114560555516441527520475606354553035103223172115051452042755420011621131133271504
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --intext "hello, world!" --iobase-10
2994749439449970047518881970731547473115480925772565399786126223459744370490386223437520234266936877059618216185983047971748564015130703048737306773910340
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --intext "hello, world!" --iobase-64
Co/WjpV5nPrCaz0QMdrXAXzzOH5HODRsBNL22KZowmGMcTLwfmsQpzt7Ik+ViR5vOhUXowFQeR5x2vbcj1X5ae
Passing the key as an argument
$ gecrypt -e --key "secretpassword" --intext "hello, world!"
⚠️ Some operating systems will log cli arguments! THIS WOULD BE THE ENTIRE KEY!
Using keyfiles
$ gecrypt -e --keyfile "dog.jpg" --intext "hello, world!"
⚠️ Some operating systems will log cli arguments! One might find your keyfile!
Encrypting files
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --infile "cat.jpg"
File cat.jpg.crypt will be created.
Encrypting files to a target file name
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --infile "cat.jpg" -o "encrypted_cat.jpg"
File encrypted_cat.jpg will be created.
Decrypting files
$ gecrypt -d --keyask --infile "cat.jpg.crypt"
File cat.jpg.crypt.plain will be created. It's contents match cat.jpg
⚠️ Since this is a block cipher, decrypted files may be tailpadded with a few nullbytes.
Decrypting files to a target file name
$ gecrypt -d --keyask --infile "cat.jpg.crypt" -o "decrypted_cat.jpg"
File decrypted_cat.jpg will be created. You can now open it again.
Encrypting large files takes time. How's the progress?
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --infile "cat.jpg" --progress
Something along the lines of Encrypting... (Block 200 / 1148 - 17.4216%) will be regularly, but not too often, printed to stdout.
What version am i running?
Depending on wether you want to know the GhettoCrypt version or the CLI's version, use either --version or --cli-version. It will print out a floating point number.
I want to stream the output of file en/decryption.
You can dump the binary result to stdout. In this example, we'll stream it into a jpg file, but you could stream it to whatever you'd like.
$ gecrypt -d --keyask --infile "cat.jpg.crypt" --ostdout > "decrypted_cat.jpg"
Esoteric data formats
Base UwU
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --intext "hello, world!" --iobase-uwu
haaaai i rawr :p xDDD xDDD XDDD rawr haaaay XD cutewr xD XDDD devewopa uwu UwU haaaai (*^.^*) XD soopa me heeeey devewopa senpaiiii xD ^.^ haaaai whiiiich masta heeeei heeeei nyeko ruff XDD ^_^ youuu xDD Owww senpaiiiw awe nyeko whiiiich Awww xD XDD hewwo UwU ^^ xD (*^_^*) masta soopa favowite whiiiich awe xDDD hewwo XD xDD hewwo UwU doopa :p (*^_^*) :o heeeey senpaiiii senpaiiii XD nyeko keeeewl me <3 cutieee <3 hiiiii UwU xD hiiiii <3 keewl soopa kawaii cutieee keewl twe heeeei XDDD hewwo hewwo
Base UGH!
$ gecrypt -e --keyask --intext "hello, world!" --iobase-ugh
Grr... Wha-? Aah! Aah! Uh-huh... Aah! Grr... Aah! Aah! Uh-huh... Ah... Ugh Grr... Ugh Pft! Nu-uh... Gah! Bah! Huh...? Ah... Uh-huh... Wha-? Pft! Nu-uh... Ugh Wha-? Psh! Agh! Ah... Aah! Nu-uh... Psh! Pft! Nu-uh... Psh! Shh! Gah! Ah... Pft! Gah! Shh! Bah! Gah! Uh-huh... Gah! Duh! Aah! Uh-huh... Er- Nu-uh... Gah! Wha-? Pft! Er- Shh! Ah... Huh...? Er- Wha-? Uh-huh... Ah... Shh! Ugh Bah! Wha-? Uaah! Ah... Nu-uh... Uh-huh... Ugh Pft! Pft! Gah! Shh! Shh! Wha-? Bah! Ugh Grr... Aah! Pft! Nu-uh... Ah... Aah! Agh! Er- Psh! Uaah! Nu-uh... Ugh Wha-? Uh-huh... Shh! Pft! Aah! Agh! Grr... Agh! Agh! Grr... Pft! Wha-? Wha-? Uh-huh... Aah! Ugh Aah! Pft! Gah! Bah! Huh...? Ugh Bah! Uaah! Gah! Bah! Duh! Duh! Uh-huh... Grr... Ah... Grr... Ugh Ah... Pft!
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