cryptest(1)

💖 cryptest — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to cryptest(1), from the General Commands Manual. this is the Test Driver for Crypto++, which is a C++ Class Library of Cryptographic Primitives. that's a lot of capital letters, i know, but it's literally just the lil test-driver tool that ships with Crypto++ so you can poke at crypto primitives and see them go ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cryptest [OPTION]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one option at a time, bestie 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

cryptest takes the following options — and yes, i'm giving you all of them, no skips, no crumbs:

• g — generate an RSA key 🔑
• h — display usage information (the classic cry for help menu, we love her)
• r — encrypt and decrypt a string using RSA 🔐
• rs privatekeyfile messagefile signaturefile — sign a file using RSA ✍️
• rv publickeyfile messagefile signaturefile — verify a signature of a file using RSA ✅
• m file — calculate MD5, SHA, and RIPEMD-160 message digests 🧮
• t — encrypt and decrypt a string using DES-EDE in CBC mode (vintage behavior, highkey iconic)
• e|d input output — encrypt or decrypt a file 🔄
• ss <threshold> <number-of-shares> file — secret share a file. heads up: the shares will be named file.000, file.001, etc 📎
• sr file share1 share2 [....] — reconstruct a secret-shared file. the number of shares given must be equal to threshold, no cap 🧩
• id <threshold> <number-of-shares> file — information disperse a file. again, shares will be named file.000, file.001, etc 📎
• ir file share1 share2 [....] — reconstruct an information-dispersed file. and again, the number of shares given must be equal to threshold 🧩
• z <compression-level> input output — gzip a file 🗜️
• u input output — gunzip a file 🫧
• ae input output — encrypt a file with AES in CTR mode 🛡️
• e64 input output — base64 encode a file
• d64 input output — base64 decode a file
• e16 input output — hex encode a file
• d16 input output — hex decode a file
• ft source-port destination-host destination-port — forward a TCP connection 🌐
• fips — run the FIPS 140-2 sample application 📋
• fips-rand — generate 100000 random files using FIPS Approved X.917 RNG 🎲 (yes, one hundred thousand. she's committed.)
• mt input — run Maurer's randomness test on a file 🎰
• v — run validation tests 🧪
• V — display version number (capital V, lowercase v, they are NOT the same bestie, do not mix them up 😭)
• b [time for each benchmark in seconds] [frequency of CPU in gigahertz] — run benchmarks ⏱️
• tv filename — run test vector file. psst: it's available in the TestVectors example subdirectory 📂

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this man page was created by Stephen Zander, Pierre Machard and Jens Peter Secher for the Debian distribution 💜 it is licenced under the same terms as the rest of the Crypto++ library, written by Wei Dai.

okay that's the whole thing, you ate it, you understood it, periodt 💅

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