oreganoli / profligate

Caesar cipher library with automatic letter-frequency decryption.

profligate

profligate is a Caesar cipher library I'm working on as part of my university coursework.

Features

• encryption and decryption with a manually specified key
• automatic decryption based on known plaintext
• automatic decryption based on English letter frequency tables and dictionary
• WebAssembly bindings
• React frontend

Not supported

• arbitrary UTF-8 input text
• alphabets other than English Latin

Live example

The React frontend is available at https://zen-khorana-764c54.netlify.app/.

Building and testing

Install the Rust toolchain for your platform and use

cargo build

cargo test