Encryption / Encoding Differences between IDE and OS X Standalone

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Wed Feb 19 21:42:18 EST 2014


I had that problem when  testing 6.6 DP1 encryption on Android.  For my
situation, it was the platform specific ssl & encryption checbox.

Which  version are you using?
On Feb 19, 2014 9:28 PM, "Peter W A Wood" <peterwawood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Roger
>
> I'm pretty certain that I did. The first time I build the standalone, I
> used the "search for ..." option. The second time I specifically included
> the ssl & encryption lib.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
> http://LiveCode1001.blogspot.com
>
> On 20 Feb 2014, at 10:23, Roger Eller wrote:
>
> > 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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