urbanware-org / rotate

Encryption tool based on the ROT cipher

ROTate

Table of contents

• Definition
• Details
• Components
• Requirements
• Documentation
• Contact
• Useless facts

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Definition

The ROTate project is a collection of scripts to encrypt and decrypt files using various ROT cipher methods.

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Details

The project allows to encrypt and decrypt files using various ROT cipher methods such as ROT13, ROT47, ROT128 as well as with enhanced variants based on each character set of these methods.

It also comes with a tool to find out which variant and value has been used to encrypt a file.

Due to the fact, that data encrypted with ROT methods can be cracked quite easily, they are not suitable for encrypting sensible data.

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Components

ROTate variants

There are three components to encrypt and decrypt files using the ROT13, ROT47 and ROT128 cipher method.

They also allow using a user-defined rotation value (based on the character set of that cipher method) instead of the default rotation value.

ROTate Cracker

As already mentioned above, data encrypted with ROT methods can be cracked quite easily. This brute force cracker helps to determine which ROT variant and rotation value has been used to encrypt a file or string by simply trying all supported variants with all rotation values available.

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Requirements

In order to use ROTate, the Python framework must be installed on the system.

Depending on which version of the framework you are using:

• Python 2.x (version 2.7 or higher is recommended, may also work with earlier versions)
• Python 3.x (version 3.2 or higher is recommended, may also work with earlier versions)

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Documentation

In the corresponding docs sub-directories, there are plain text files containing a detailed documentation for each component with further information and usage examples.

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Contact

Any suggestions, questions, bugs to report or feedback to give?

You can contact me by sending an email to [email protected] or by opening a GitHub issue (which I would prefer if you have a GitHub account).

Further information can be found inside the contact.txt file.

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Useless facts

• The name ROTate stands for ROT with Additional Tools and Enhancements.
• The first version uploaded on GitHub was ROTate 3.0.6 built on March 13^th, 2018.
• Before uploading, the project has neither been changed nor even touched for more than three years.

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