tanuj208 / CipherForces

CipherForces

CipherForces is a Learning Platform for various Security Schemes where one can learn by experimenting (OJ for POIS). It is a Web app for hosting security challenges where the student can interact with different security schemes. A Prehosted set of Challenges spanning from Ancient Ciphers to Advanced Ciphers covering concepts covered in POIS course have already been uploaded to the Web app.

Features

• Ability to host Problem Statements
• Upload security algorithms
• User specified Server Interface Access (SIA)
• Solve Challenges
• Keeping track of the Attempts and Successes
• Play around with Common Security Algorithms
• Number of attempts and success of each algorithm.

Users

• Teaching Assistant :
  • Interface for Uploading Challenge
  • Ability to use custom codes with limited interaction ability
  • Uploading Algorithms for free interaction
• Student :
  • Browse through chapters
  • Interact with uploaded challenge codes
  • Solve Challenges
  • Keep track of attempts and successes

Challenge Upload

For challenge upload, the security scheme should adhere to a specific format for proper execution. The uploaded file should be in a zip file containing a folder having the following contents:

• encrypt.py
• decrypt.py
• generate_keys.py
• keys.json

The above programs should have the same functionality as their names. All the files should take a command line argument and output the respective content in the console itself without any other redundant data.

How to Run

To run, clone the directory, then type the following commands, inside the cloned directory.

For flask app -

$ cd flask_app
$ export FLASK_APP=__init__.py
$ pip3 -r requirements.txt
$ flask run

For react app -

$ cd app
$ npm install
$ npm start

To create a fresh database, delete the previous database and create a fresh database using the command:

$ python3 create_db.py

License

Copyright © 2020 Cipher Forces [e-mail]