Language: Python Goal: implement decry

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Language: Python

Goal: implement decryption in the attached code block

 

import argparse

import os

import time

import sys

import string

 

# Handle command-line arguments

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()

parser.add_argument("-d", "--decrypt", help='Decrypt a file', required=False)

parser.add_argument("-e", "--encrypt", help='Encrypt a file', required=False)

parser.add_argument("-o", "--outfile", help='Output file', required=False)

 

args = parser.parse_args()

 

encrypting = True

 

try:

    ciphertext = open(args.decrypt, "rb").read()

    try:

        plaintext = open(args.encrypt, "rb").read()

        print("You can't specify both -e and -d")

        exit(1)

    except Exception:

        encrypting = False

except Exception:

    try:

        plaintext = open(args.encrypt, "rb").read()

    except Exception:

        print("Input file error (did you specify -e or -d?)")

        exit(1)

 

def lrot(n, d):

    return ((n << d) & 0xff) | (n >> (8 - d))

 

if encrypting:

    # Get the key

    keybytes = bytes(os.urandom(8))

    keyrotate = keybytes[0] % 7 + 1

    keyxor = []

    key = ""

    # Rotate the key

    for i in range(1, 8):

        keyxor.append(ord(string.ascii_letters[keybytes[i] % len(string.ascii_letters)]))

        key = key + chr(keyxor[i-1])

    print("The key is %s rotated by %d bits." % (key, keyrotate))

 

    ciphertext = []

    for i in range(0, len(plaintext)):

        ciphertext.append(lrot(plaintext[i], keyrotate) ^ keyxor[i % len(keyxor)])

 

    with open(args.outfile, "wb") as output:

        output.write(bytes(ciphertext))

        output.close()

else:

    print("Decryption is not implemented!")

    exit(1)

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