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scream_cypher
In the SCREAM CYPHER, messages consist of all As with different letters distinguished using diacritics. This is a tool that provides both a CLI tool and a library to encrypt and decrypt text using the scream cypher.
Acknowledgements
This cypher originated from XKCD. Thank you, Randall Munroe, for always bringing such beautiful things into this world.

Command line installation and usage
Install scream_cypher
with Cargo:
cargo install scream_cypher
You can then use the scream
command to encrypt and decrypt messages:
scream encrypt "This is a test."
# Āa̰ảã ảã a āáãā.
scream decrypt "Āa̰ảã ảã a āáãā."
# This is a test.
Library installation and usage
Add scream_cypher
to your project:
cargo add scream_cypher
You can then use scream_cypher::encrypt
and scream_cypher::encrypt
to
encrypt and decrypt messages:
let ciphertext = scream_cipher::encrypt("This is a test.");
println!("Your message: \"{}\"", ciphertext);
// Your message: "Āa̰ảã ảã a āáãā."
let plaintext = scream_cipher::decrypt(cyphertext);
println!("Your message: \"{}\"", plaintext);
// Your message: "This is a test."
License
This project is dual licensed under Apache 2.0 or MIT.
Dependencies
~1.4–2MB
~39K SLoC