Encryption, decryption, and hashing are integral to any developer working with sensitive data or cryptographic workflows. Today, I’m thrilled to introduce Inline Cryptography Toolkit, a powerful, intuitive, and developer-friendly VS Code extension that brings these capabilities directly to your code editor.

🔒 What is Inline Cryptography Toolkit?

Inline Cryptography Toolkit is a Visual Studio Code extension designed to empower developers with seamless cryptographic operations directly within their workflow. Whether you're encrypting sensitive data, decrypting secrets, or generating secure hashes, this toolkit simplifies these operations by allowing you to interact directly with selected text.

✨ Features

• Encryption & Decryption:

  • Supports various algorithms, including AES, Blowfish, RSA, Base64, and Base32.
  • Automatically determines if a key is required and prompts accordingly.

• Hashing:

  • Generate MD5, SHA-256, and SHA-512 hashes with ease.

• Context Menu Integration:

  • Right-click any selected text and access cryptographic operations from the context menu.

• Command Palette Integration:

  • Run operations using VS Code’s Command Palette for quick access.

• Smart Key Handling:

  • Prompts for a key only when the selected encryption method requires one.

🚀 How It Works

Encrypt Text

1. Select the text you want to encrypt.
2. Right-click and choose Encrypt → Select the desired encryption method (e.g., AES, Blowfish).
3. The extension replaces the selected text with the encrypted output.

Decrypt Text

1. Select the encrypted text.
2. Right-click and choose Decrypt → Select the corresponding decryption method.
3. Enter the required key (if applicable), and the text is decrypted inline.

Hash Text

1. Select the text.
2. Right-click and choose Hash → Pick a hashing algorithm (e.g., MD5, SHA-256).
3. The hash is generated and replaces the selected text.

💻 Why Use Inline Cryptography Toolkit?

🔹 Developer Productivity

Switching between tools for cryptographic operations disrupts your workflow. This extension keeps you focused by enabling in-editor cryptography.

🔹 Broad Cryptographic Support

From symmetric encryption to hashing algorithms, this toolkit covers a wide range of use cases.

🔹 User-Friendly

The context menu and Command Palette integrations ensure you can perform operations in a few clicks.

🔹 Open Source

Inline Cryptography Toolkit is open source, and contributions are welcome. Check out the GitHub Repository for more details.

📦 Installation

1. Open Extensions in Visual Studio Code.
2. Search for Inline Cryptography Toolkit.
3. Click Install.

Alternatively, install it via the command line:

code --install-extension inline-cryptography-toolkit

🌟 Future Plans

• Add support for additional encryption and hashing algorithms.
• Allow users to define custom encryption keys and methods.
• Enhance performance and UX with community feedback.

📚 Learn More

Explore the GitHub repository for detailed documentation, contribution guidelines, and to report issues.

🙌 Contributions Welcome!

If you have ideas, find bugs, or want to add features, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request. Let’s build a robust cryptographic toolkit together!

🔗 Share Your Feedback

Have you tried Inline Cryptography Toolkit? Let me know your thoughts in the comments or on GitHub Issues. Your feedback is invaluable!

Happy encrypting! 💻✨