Python File Encryption: Quick One day Project!

Quick easy to learn resume project in Python! Learn how to use XOR encryption to lock down any file on your system.

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[Oodle-oxvf]

Good clear instructions. Stayed on topic with no extra frills to complicate things. 🙂

[asriel_]

Thanks! Now i will encrypt school files

[ericphantri]

Dont use software but use analog enscrypting separate from the mschine and it include day and gps then can be spy cstcher for network copy

[gauravrewaliya]

can we decript
any how a file encripted by ransomware
please create a video bro..

[suyashmisra]

@ClarityCoders I tried encrypting an ipynb file and it worked. however, when i tried to decrypt it, i got this error
TypeError: string argument without an encoding
how do i fix or circumvent this? thanks in advance!
Edit: bytearray takes an optional second arguement, ie encoding scheme. I've tried utf-8 , ASCII and ANSI but am unable to decrypt the original notebook.

[michaelolu]

Is this breakeable in anyway?...maybe with brute Force iterating till it gets the right key?

[anshulrawat]

bro is there any way to overwrite the file . rather creating new file>?

[themariomine]

how do i fix "error: filename is not defined."

[sndraindrop]

This does not work with .txt files, still opened with notepad

[ganesantamil]

I have public key how to get private key

[srayansankarchatterjee]

can this be used for encrypting ZIP files as well?