The PKE program is an encryption and decryption program inspired by the public key encryption protocol.
It is only compatible with the latest Windows operating system or any operating system with python 3.7.
- Added scrollbar to output
- Combined input to single window
- Changed output to pop up dialog box
- Added custom encryption keys
To install the built PKE program you will need the latest version of the windows operating system and about 250Mb of space on your hard disk. Once you have this, go ahead and go to the versions tab on the right hand side of the screen. under the latest release there is a space called asssests, under this there is a file called PKE.exe. Click on this and your download will start. Once it has downloaded move it to somewhere you can easily find.
To install the python or source version of the PKE program, you will need python 3 installed on your computer and some space left on your hard disk. Once you have this, click the green Download button on the main page, then select the Download Zip option. This will download an compressed version of the code onto your device. Next, extract all the files from the zipped folder into a directory that is easily accessible.
To run the built version of the PKE program, after you have downloaded it double click the file named PKE-vX.X.X.exe.
To run the source code or the python version, right click the file called PKE.py and select open with. Then from the menu select python 3.
When you run the program you will be prompted with a window with a few configuration options follow these 4 steps to encrypt a message:
- At the top select the encrypt radiobutton
- Then if you want to encrypt your message with a custom encryption key, type the public key into the first box and the main key into the second, if you just want to use the default encryption key leave them blank
- Next type your message to encrypt in the big text box and press 'run', your encrypted text will show up in a pop up dialog box for you to copy paste out of
- To close the dialog box press 'ok' and it will diapear then you can encrypt, decrypt or close the program, to close the program press 'cancel'
When you run the program you will be prompted with a window with a few configuration options follow these 4 steps to decrypt a message:
- At the top select the decrypt radiobutton
- Ignore the two small text boxes they are for encrypting
- Next type the message you want to decrypt in the big text box and press 'run', your decrypted text will show up in a pop up dialog box for you to read
- To close the dialog box press 'ok' and it will diapear then you can encrypt, decrypt or close the program, to close the program press 'cancel'