AESus 🔐✝️👹

Because your secrets deserve more than earthly protection.

🧿 What is This?

AESus is a lean, word-based AES-256 encryption tool written in Rust, with just a hint of divine mischief. It turns memorable passphrases into strong encryption keys, helping you lock up your messages and files without resorting to arcane keyfiles or 32-character gibberish.

It’s built for privacy nerds, terminal romantics, and anyone who prefers encryption with a little style.

🌐 Try the Web Version (GUI)

Need to lock it down without touching a terminal? 👉 Use AESus on the Web (Vercel)

✨ Features

• 🔑 Word-based passphrases → SHA-256 → AES-256 key (easy to remember, hard to brute force)
• 🔐 AES-256-CBC encryption/decryption with IV embedding
• 📁 File encryption/decryption support with .aesus extension
• 🎲 Diceware-style passphrase generator
• ⚙️ Clean and simple CLI built with clap
• 🦀 Fast, safe, zero-bullshit Rust implementation

📦 Usage

✅ Install (locally)

cargo install --path .

Or install globally from crates.io (after publishing):

cargo install aesus

🔐 Encrypt a message:

aesus encrypt "Confess nothing" --key scythe-raven-lemon-halo

🔓 Decrypt a hex blob:

aesus decrypt --hex 9bc6f1bed445025faf5521d3240248cf4c95378d695f2a1d100735585f46509d --key scythe-raven-lemon-halo 

📁 Encrypt a file:

aesus encrypt --file secret.txt --key pancake-prophet-echo-oxide

Creates: secret.txt.aesus

📂 Decrypt a file:

aesus decrypt --file secret.txt.aesus --key pancake-prophet-echo-oxide 

🎲 Generate a passphrase:

aesus generate --words 6

Example output:

quest-ember-black-icicle-neon-crane

Strong. Memorable. Weirdly poetic.

🛠 Roadmap

• CLI using clap — built with clean flags and minimal ceremony
• File encryption/decryption — lock up your data with confidence
• Diceware-style passphrase generator — passwords that sound like spells
• .aesus config and secret storage — coming soon for local persistence
• Cross-platform builds — Windows deserves privacy too, apparently
• GUI web companion — for those who click before they type
• Whispered Latin chants on success — a joke... unless?

📜 Disclaimer

AESus is not divine. It won’t protect you from forgetting your passphrase or encrypting the wrong file. It does one thing well: turning words into keys, and data into secrets.

Use responsibly. Backup often. Don’t test AES with your only copy of anything.

🩸 License

MIT. Free as in open source, and as in “open to unusual use cases.”

🕳️ Contact

Made by Andrew Garcia Bug reports welcome. Feedback encouraged. Incantations optional.