🔐 VidCrypt – Video-based File Encryption Tool with GUI (AES Encrypted)

VidCrypt is a secure and user-friendly desktop application that allows you to encrypt and decrypt any file by converting it into a video format, using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). It’s a unique tool designed for forensic, privacy-conscious, or creative data protection purposes.

With a minimal yet functional GUI, VidCrypt provides seamless file selection, password protection, and video generation — all in a few clicks.

Encrypt anything into video - the invisible vault in plain sight

🚀 Key Features

• ✅ AES Encryption Uses strong, password-based AES encryption to protect your files.
• Video encoding made easy with the GUI

🎞️ Video-Based Storage

🖥️ System Requirements

• Python 3.7 or higher
• OpenCV (cv2), cryptography, numpy, tkinter (all included in requirements.txt)
• Works on Windows, Linux, and macOS

🛠️ Installation & Usage
# 1. (Optional but recommended) Create virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate     # or .venvScriptsactivate on Windows

# 2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

# 3. Run the encoder, There is nice GUI which is self explanatory. ps: specify .avi in the end of video output in encoder

python3 enc.py

# 4. Afterwards Run the decoder with correct password (otherwise it is practically impossible to get the og file)

python3 dec.py