Encryption / Encoding Differences between IDE and OS X Standalone
Peter W A Wood
peterwawood at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 21:27:44 EST 2014
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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