Setup

git clone ... the repo and then

$ cd ProjectCipherChant/cipherchant
$ systemctl start docker ; time sudo vagrant reload ; time sudo vagrant up ; sudo vagrant docker-exec -it -- /usr/bin/fish
# poetry install

poetry install gets (almost) all the dependencies installed.

The one dependency poetry doesn't install: bananaphone. It's python2, not 3. The Vagrant/docker setup will get it installed.

Testing

After setup, poetry shell and then usage to test:

cipherchant enchant 'hi' (anything for passphrase, for example 'p')

cipherchant disenchant "bookmaking-corsair-alighting-caramels" (this was encoded with passphrase 'p', and default bpw 13.)

No tests/ are written yet.

passphrase: 'p'

# poetry run cipherchant enchant "hi"
# poetry run cipherchant disenchant "pursued-jottings-classifications-underpaid"

TBD

• rip out the async code and replace with basic multiprocess setup. Async is cool but not actually useful for this use case.
• clean up code, make classes
• maybe integrate alternative compression scheme (arithmetic encoding). -> Find good statistical heuristics (maybe ML) to judge when we have guessed/brute-forced the right decoding parameters.
• use NLP to generate/curate a good token-list with short /sentences/ as tokens (more bits per token)
• implement a TUI/ncurses (pytermgui? py_cui? textual? picotui?)
• port bananaphone to py3
• implement sideloading for pre-calculated hashtables for bananaphone

Misc

podman would be great but didnt seem to work...

backwards:

sudo dnf remove podman-docker moby-engine -y; sh ./get-docker.sh ; systemctl start docker
DRY_RUN=1 sh ./get-docker.sh
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh