Cow-encryptor

Encrypt your files in cow language 🐮

Installation 📦

Arch Linux 🐧

cow-encryptor is in the AUR

yay -S cow-encryptor

Other 🪟🐧

With make - Linux 🐧

Build with make

# 📂 cow-encryptor/
make

Copy the binary to bin folder

# 📂 cow-encryptor/
make install

Build from source - Linux 🐧 & Windows 🪟

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/SkwalExe/cow-encryptor.git

build with cargo

# 📂 cow-encryptor/
cargo build --release

[ LINUX ONLY ] : Move the binary

# 📂 cow-encryptor/
sudo cp target/release/cow-encryptor /usr/bin/cow-encryptor

On windows the executable will be target\release\cow-encryptor.exe you can move it wherever you want.

Usage 📝

–overwrite

Folder content :

If you try

cow-encryptor secret.txt

You will get the following error :

Because a destination file already exists.

Use the –overwrite flag to overwrite the destination file.

–encrypt

Enter encryption mode, the specified file will be encrypted.

Original file :

cow-encryptor --encrypt secret.txt

Result :

Encryption mode will be used by default if the file doens’t have the .cow extension.

–decrypt

Enter decription mode, the specified file will be decrypted.

Encrypted file :

cow-encryptor [--decrypt] secret.txt.cow

The decryption mode will automatically be used if the file ends with .cow

–print

With this option, the encrypted/decrypted file will be printed to the standard output instead if saving it to a file.

Docker 🐳

Run the latest version

docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/skwalexe/cow-encryptor:main

Test your changes 🚧

Build 🛠️

# 📂 cow-encryptor/
docker build -t cow-encryptor .

Run 🏃

docker run --rm -it cow-encryptor [OPTIONS]

Uninstall 🗑

With make

Run make uninstall

# 📂 cow-encryptor/
make uninstall

removing the binary

sudo rm /usr/bin/cow-encryptor

Setting up development environment

For this project, I recommend Visual Studio Code.

You’ll need to install the rust extension

ext install rust-lang.rust

contributing

Start by forking this repository.

Then clone your fork to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/your-username/cow-encryptor.git

Create a new branch

git checkout -b super-cool-feature

Then edit the source code in the 📂/src/ folder.

Once you’re done, commit your changes and push them to the remote repository.

git add --all
git commit -m "Add super-cool-feature"
git push origin super-cool-feature

Then, open a pull request on GitHub from your fork.

final

If you have any problem, don’t hesitate to open an issue