What exactly is SAS-STE?

SAS-STE: SAS-Secure Text Encryption is a very secure and unique opensource text encryption algorithm developed and maintained by Saaiq Abdulla Saeed (SAS). The algorithm uses high level characters to converts plain text into cypher text instead of encrypting at binary level. More specifically it substitutes a plain text character with another character at a much more advanced and randomized manner (not like the ’Caesar cipher’ which shifts characters along the alphabet based on single a number acting as a key). Furthermore the encryption can be utilized to encrypt text within text based files (e.g. .txt , .java, .py, .html, etc.). This utilization is done in all the official releases of SAS-STE allowing users to encrypt both text-based files and plain text. This encryption algorithm uses two types of keys, Static Keys and Dynamic Keys (previously referred to as ‘Public Keys’). Static Keys are keys which are made to be unique to each copy of a SAS-STE release while Dynamic Keys are meant to be used as general keys which is to be unique for each encryption done. These keys are fixed format keys which can be generated using an SAS-STE release (Do note that SAS-STE allows users to re-use previously generated keys). Though these keys are fixed format, the number of unique keys that can be generated are quite high and the chances of duplicate keys are low. To know more about SAS-STE algorithm and SAS-STE releases, you can read the SAS-STE Documentation.

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