The goal of Plainsight is to help you avoid being flagged as 'suspicious' by internet censors. By using Plainsight, your data will be enciphered to look like harmless English prose. When you transmit it to someone else, eaves- droppers will only see the written word, and not your data payload.
This is an improvement over just sending an encrypted file, because no suspicious random-looking bitstreams are seen by others.
Install it (only Python 2 is supported at this time, due to the path in the executable shim):
sudo pip install bitstring
sudo pip install plainsightDownload a copy of 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
curl -o sherlock.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1661/pg1661.txtType your message to encode:
echo 'Meet at Union Square at noon. The password is FuriousGreen.' > cleartextThen, pipe it through Plainsight:
cat cleartext | plainsight -m encipher -f sherlock.txt > ciphertextThe output will be gibberish that Doyle could've written:
cat ciphertext | fold -s
which was the case, of a light. And, his hand. "BALLARAT." only applicant?"
decline be walking we do, the point of the little man in a strange, her
husband's hand, going said road, path but you do know what I have heard of you,
I found myself to get away from home and for the ventilator little cold night,
and I he had left my friend Sherlock of our visitor and he had an idea was not
to abuse step I of you, I knew what I was then the first signs it is the
daughter, at least a fellow-countryman. had come. as I have already explained,
the garden. what you can see a of importance. your hair. a picture upon of the
money which had brought a you have a little good deal in way: out to my wife
and hurry." made your hair. a charge me a series events, and excuse no sign his
note-book has come away and in my old Sherlock was already down to do with the
twistedNow, decipher that ciphertext:
cat ciphertext | plainsight -m decipher -f sherlock.txt > deciphered
cat deciphered
Meet at Union Square at noon. The password is FuriousGreen.The implementation is not as clear as it should be.
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