This project contains an encrypted version of my solution to the Project Euler problem along with a package containing a command line tool to decrypt the solutions.
- Each solution file contains instruction to create the password for that file.
- A decrypted solution file may contain more than one solution to the given problem.
- Some of the solutions may solve the problem in general.
- If you are recruiter that I have already spoken to and want to see a particular solution feel free to email me and ask.
This section will describe how to install and use the pe_crypto command line tool to decrypt a solution.
Installing the pe_crypto package with pip is the easiest way to set up the pe_crypto tool. This require python 3 and I recommend doing the install in a virtual environment.
- Open a terminal and navigate to the Project_Euler directory
- Run
pip install .\pe_cryptoDoing this will install the pe_cyrpto tool and any necessary libraries into your python environment.
To use pe_crypto to decrypt a file you need to get the password for that solution, each solution contains instructions for obtaining the password. Once you have obtained the password use the 'decrypt' command in pe_crypto to decrypt the solution. The arguments to pe_crypto decrypt are as follows
- Number: The Project Euler problem number 0 padded to 4 decimals.
- Ex. The number argument for Project Euler Problem #1 is '0001'
- Password: The password as describe by that solution
- SRC: The solution being decrypted
- DST: The file you want the decrypted file to be.
If you where trying to decrypt the solution file for Problem 1 and the password for that solution was 'Password' the command for decrypting that file, if you are in the Project_Euler directory, would be.
pe_crypto decrypt 0001 Password .\\0001-0100\\PE0001.txt PE0001.py
Every solution is set up to be used as a command line tool. To get information on how to use that command line tools run.
python [solution file] -h
Example for Project Euler Problem #1
python PE0001.py -h