New SimpleCrypt page

pasnox

Hi,

Thanks for your answer i found the problem.
I was using a stupid generated test key like: quint64 key( qHash( "the_test_key" ) );
When the binary change, the hash returned by this call was not identical as previously, resulting to badly decrypted content.
Using QString version fixed the problem: quint64 key( qHash( QString( "the_test_key" ) ) );

thanks you!

andre

I don't think qHash is guaranteed to give the same result between runs actually, so it seems unwise to me to use it in this way. Furthermore, it is not very secure. qHash returns a uint, while the key used is a quint64. So, you are only using a 32 bits key instead of a 64 bits one.

pasnox

Right, it's not secure, as i told, it was a test project.
The problem of the qHash over a const char* is that it may be done differently depending the os / compiler.
A qHash around a QString is always giving the same result because it hash the string content - I did not read the code on what it does with const char*.
Anyway, yes using this way is not a good way, but it was a test.
By the way is there some repository to to track the code ? having to copy/paste it from a wiki page is not so natural.

Thanks for your code, and the help.

andre

No the code is not in a repo, but I probably should put it on Gitorious or something like that.

For generating a key out of a string, I think I'd just use QCryptographic hash with MD5 or SHA-1, and create a 64 bit key out of the 16 (MD5) or 20 (SHA-1) bytes these generate. The key you need is 8 bytes, but reducing the 16 or 20 bytes to 8 is just a simple XOR or two away...

butterfingerss

Hey there, I am new to Qt and just came across your work ... great work by the way... could you tell me where your updated work might be? like the latest one?

cuz I seem to have a problem with this one - https://www.gitorious.org/qtdevnet-wiki-mvc/qtdevnet-simplecryptiodevide/source/a170750960820be4230ea1aff85148fc41f0dcf3:

vrushali_deshpande

Hi Andre,

Thanks for the code. It is really useful.

But is there any way to find out whether the file is encrypted or not? I would like to know if the input file is encrypted or not, if yes, then only I will decrypt it.

Thanks in advance,
Vrushali

Kaluss

Hi Andre,
an example how to check it You got directly in the code:

@
if (version !=3) { //we only work with version 3
m_lastError = ErrorUnknownVersion;
qWarning() << "Invalid version or not a cyphertext.";
return QByteArray();
}
@

But is very useful thing that if You send to decryp function non-encypted data it will return the same string.

Kaluss

Hi Andre,
an example how to check it You got directly in the code:

@
if (version !=3) { //we only work with version 3
m_lastError = ErrorUnknownVersion;
qWarning() << "Invalid version or not a cyphertext.";
return QByteArray();
}
@

But is very useful thing that if You send to decryp function non-encypted data it will return the same string.

andre

I disagree. I don't think the class should return the cyphertext as the plaintext if the cyphertext could not be decrypted. I think that it is the responsibility of the application to keep the conceptually very different plaintext and cypher text separate. If you don't know if a text is a cyphertext or a plaintext, I think you have design issues.

If you really want, you can work around this yourself by simply checking the returned string and the last error, and then using the original plain text on decryption error. I wouldn't recommend that though.

andre

I disagree. I don't think the class should return the cyphertext as the plaintext if the cyphertext could not be decrypted. I think that it is the responsibility of the application to keep the conceptually very different plaintext and cypher text separate. If you don't know if a text is a cyphertext or a plaintext, I think you have design issues.

If you really want, you can work around this yourself by simply checking the returned string and the last error, and then using the original plain text on decryption error. I wouldn't recommend that though.

Kaluss

I could have this situation only when im switching between debug/release mode, because I decidated not to enrypt files when Im working on debug mode, thus when I go back to release all my files are not encrypted. At the moment I check result, and if its empty I put the orginal string.

Kaluss

I could have this situation only when im switching between debug/release mode, because I decidated not to enrypt files when Im working on debug mode, thus when I go back to release all my files are not encrypted. At the moment I check result, and if its empty I put the orginal string.

Kaluss

One more question to the author I changed all calls of depraced from and to ASCII to Latin1 not to Utf8. It's ok with that?

Kaluss

One more question to the author I changed all calls of depraced from and to ASCII to Latin1 not to Utf8. It's ok with that?

Julianoliveira

I had the same problem, and substitute:

toAScii -> toLatin1
fromAScii -> fromASCII

Works fine to me too,

Thanks for sharing the code.

Julianoliveira

I had the same problem, and substitute:

toAScii -> toLatin1
fromAScii -> fromASCII

Works fine to me too,

Thanks for sharing the code.