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Password Encryption Help Python3 - SockMankey - Oct-13-2020
I am trying to make a program that is given a password and encrypts it by shifting each value up by 3. For example, if you entered in the password: Ab1 you would get De4. I'm trying to make it to where if the input is Z or 9, the output loops back to the start. So the password for Z9 would be C3.
I know I need to have a loop in order to accomplish this, but I'm not sure which type of loop/where to put the loop.
Quote:
def caesar(text):
ciphertext=""
for char in text:
if char.isupper():
ciphertext += chr((ord(char)+3 -65)%+26+65)
elif char.islower():
ciphertext += chr((ord(char)+3-97)%26+97)
elif char.isdigit():
ciphertext += chr((ord(char)+3))
else:
ciphertext+=char
return ciphertext
text = input("Enter a password: ")
print('Plain Text: ', text)
print('Cipher:', caesar(text))Quote:
RE: Password Encryption Help Python3 - DPaul - Oct-14-2020
You have a calulation method that works for upper and lowercase; For digits you do something different. Maybe you should use the same method, but not with 26 . Paul
RE: Password Encryption Help Python3 - perfringo - Oct-14-2020
Another approach could be using constants provided by built-in string module (including ascii upper and lowercases and digits). Combining these constants with % for indices one should achieve desired result.