💀 Cryptex Terminal

✨ A real-time encryption-decryption app with a dark-themed UI.
Built using React + Flask + Fernet Encryption, this app auto-generates a secret.key to ensure secure and consistent cryptographic operations.

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🔐 Features

• ⚡ Live Encryption Preview – Realtime character-by-character encryption
• 🌑 Dark Terminal-Themed UI – Aesthetic, sleek and responsive
• 🔒 Encrypt + Decrypt Zones – Each with copy-to-clipboard functionality
• 🔑 Auto-Generated Key – secret.key is created and reused securely
• 🔁 One-click Copy Buttons – For quick access to encrypted/decrypted output
• 🧠 Built With Learning in Mind – Great for exploring basic cryptography

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🧠 Tech Stack

Layer	Tools
Frontend	React, JavaScript, TailwindCSS (optional)
Backend	Flask, Flask-CORS
Encryption	Python cryptography.fernet
Extras	Axios, Markdown styling, Copy-to-clipboard API

⚛️ Frontend (React + Vite)

cd cryptex-frontend
npm install
npm run dev

🐍 Backend (Flask + Python)

cd cryptex-backend
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

📌 On first run, a secret.key file is automatically created in Config (cryptex-backend/Config) and used for all encryption/decryption operations.

📦 requirements.txt (inside /cryptex-backend folder)

flask
flask-cors
cryptography

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Future Plans

• Multi-user login + encryption key assignment
• Encryption history log
• More encryption algorithms: AES, RSA, etc.
• Export encrypted data to .txt or .json

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Created by OHMIC GUY

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ohmicguy/