RSA Cryptography Authentication Proof-of-Concept

This project was a request by Structured Programming lectures in Computer Science college.
It runs with both a Python front-end CLI structure and API Endpoints running with Flask.

Features

This application does feature a simple authentication concept with encryption over the data transfered between the client and the endpoint.

User registration
User authentication

Requirements

Python v3.0 or greater is required.
This project was tested only in Windows. Might be able to run it on Linux and other *nix based operational systems.

Installation

Windows:

First, clone this repository or download the folder and extract it somewhere
$ git clone https://github.com/bardsnight/aps-proj.git
Create a python virtual environment
$ python -m venv venv
Activate the virtual environment
$ .\venv\Scripts\activate
Install project dependencies
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

This application is deployed with both the client main.py and the Flask API app.py. You have to run both to be able to reproduce the concept.

First, run the Flask API with the Virtual Environment (venv) active:
$ (venv) $ flask run
By default, flask run will run app.py.

Your API should now be running at http://localhost:500/.

Open up another CLI and run the main application:
(venv) $ python .\main.py

You can now select whichever options you wanna test.
1 for logging in with a existent user.
2 for registering a new user.
3 to quit the application.