Encryption / Encoding Differences between IDE and OS X Standalone

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Wed Feb 19 21:23:29 EST 2014


In standalone application settings, are you including ssl & encryption?

~Roger
On Feb 19, 2014 9:20 PM, "Peter W A Wood" <peterwawood at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a very simple stack to encrypt or decrypt some text. There
> are two fields (In and Out) and two buttons (Encrypt and Decrypt). When I
> encrypt test in the IDE and then paste the encrypted text from the Out
> field to the In field and then decrypt it, I get the back the original
> text. But not in an OS X Standalone. From a few experiments, I suspect that
> the issue is related to displaying the encrypted text, probably an encoding
> issue.
>
> I'm using LiveCode 6.5.2 under OS X 10.7.5
>
> Here is my script:
>
> local tData
> local tDisplay
> local tPassword
> local tSalt
> local tIV
>
> on openStack
>    put the sha1Digest of "My Old Password" into tPassword
>    put "12345678" into tSalt
>    put "1234567890123456" in tIV
> end openStack
>
> on encryptMSG
>    put Field "In" into tData
>    encrypt tData using "aes256" with password tPassword and salt tSalt and
> IV tIV
>    put it into tDisplay
>    delete char 1 to 16 of tDisplay
>    put tDisplay into Field "Out"
> end encryptMSG
>
> on decryptMSG
>    put Field "In" into tData
>    decrypt tData using "aes256" with password tPassword and salt tSalt and
> IV tIV
>    put it into Field "Out"
> end decryptMSG
>
> When I copy the encrypted text from the OS X standalone into a text editor
> (or even Mail), it displays differently (hence my suspicion that this is an
> encoding issue.
>
> I appreciate any suggestions as to where I am going wrong.
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
> http://LiveCode1001.blogspot.com
>
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