Crypt2 ActiveX Reference Documentation

Crypt2

Current Version: 10.0.0

Chilkat encryption component.

Object Creation

Note:
For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use "Chilkat_9_5_0.Crypt2" instead of "Chilkat.Crypt2"
For a specific major version, use "Chilkat.Crypt2.<major_version>", such as "Chilkat.Crypt2.10" for Chilkat v10.*.*
See Chilkat ActiveX Object Creation

(ASP)
set obj = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Crypt2")

(AutoIt)
$obj = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Crypt2")

(Visual Basic 6.0)
Dim obj As New ChilkatCrypt2

(VBScript)
set obj = CreateObject("Chilkat.Crypt2")

(Delphi)
obj := TChilkatCrypt2.Create(Self);

(FoxPro)
loObject = CreateObject('Chilkat.Crypt2')

(PowerBuilder)
lole_object = create oleobject
li_rc = lole_object.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Crypt2")

(SQL Server)
EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Crypt2', @obj OUT

(Javascript)
var obj = new ActiveXObject("Chilkat.Crypt2");

Properties

AbortCurrent
AbortCurrent As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.58

When set to 1, causes the currently running method to abort. Methods that always finish quickly (i.e.have no length file operations or network communications) are not affected. If no method is running, then this property is automatically reset to 0 when the next method is called. When the abort occurs, this property is reset to 0. Both synchronous and asynchronous method calls can be aborted. (A synchronous method call could be aborted by setting this property from a separate thread.)

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BCryptWorkFactor
BCryptWorkFactor As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.65

The BCrypt work factor to be used for the BCryptHash and BCryptVerify. This is the log2 of the number of rounds of hashing to apply. For example, if the work (cost) factor is 12, then 2^12 rounds of hashing are applied. The purpose of this cost factor is to make the BCrypt computation expensive enought to prevent brute-force attacks. (Any complaints about BCrypt "not being fast enough" will be ignored.)

This property must have a value ranging from 4 to 31 inclusive.

The default value is 10.

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BlockSize
BlockSize As Long (read-only)

The block-size (in bytes) of the selected encryption algorithm. For example, if the CryptAlgorithm property is set to "aes", the BlockSize property is automatically set to 16. The block-size for the ARC4 streaming encryption algorithm is 1.

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CadesEnabled
CadesEnabled As Long

Applies to all methods that create PKCS7 signatures. To create a CAdES-BES signature, set this property equal to 1. The default value of this property is 0.

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CadesSigPolicyHash
CadesSigPolicyHash As String

This is the base64 hash of the policy document located at the CadesSigPolicyUri. You can use either the SHA256 or SHA1 hash. You may use this online tool to compute the base64 hash: Compute Base64 Hash for CaDES Signature Policy URL

Note: This property applies to all methods that create PKCS7 signatures. To create a CAdES-EPES signature, set the CadesEnabled property = 1, and also provide values for each of the following properties: CadesSigPolicyHash, CadesSigPolicyId, and CadesSigPolicyUri. For example (in pseudo-code):

cryptObj.CadesSigPolicyId = "2.16.76.1.7.1.1.1"
cryptObj.CadesSigPolicyUri = "http://politicas.icpbrasil.gov.br/PA_AD_RB.der"
cryptObj.CadesSigPolicyHash = "rySugyKaMhiMR8Y/o5yuU2A2bF0="
Note: Do NOT use the values above. They are only provided as an example to show valid values. For example, the Policy ID is an OID. The Policy URI is a typically a URL to a DER encoded policy file, and the Policy Hash is a base64 encoded hash.

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CadesSigPolicyId
CadesSigPolicyId As String

See the description for the CadesSigPolicyHash property above.

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CadesSigPolicyUri
CadesSigPolicyUri As String

See the description for the CadesSigPolicyHash property above.

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Charset
Charset As String

Controls the character encoding of the text encrypted, signed, hashed or compressed. This property is relevant wherever strings are used as inputs or outputs.

This property defaults to the ANSI charset of the computer. For example, the default ANSI code page on Windows computers in the USA and Western Europe would be "windows-1252".

When working with strings, it is important to know the exact bytes that are being encrypted/hashed/signed/compressed. This is critical when interoperating with other systems. If your application is sending an encrypted string to another system that will decrypt it, you will need to know the encoding of the string that is expected on the receiving end (after decryption). If you pass Unicode data (2 byte per character) to the encryptor, subsequent decryption will reproduce the original Unicode. However, it may be that your program works with Unicode strings, but the recipient of the encrypted data works with iso-8859-1 strings. In such a case, setting the Charset property to "iso-8859-1" causes the character data to be automatically converted to the Charset before being encrypted (or compressed, or hashed, or signed). The set of valid charsets is listed below:

<font size="2" face="MS Sans Serif">
hex
base64
    * "hex" and "base64" are special values that allow for binary (non-text) encoded data to be passed to any method where the input data is a string.
       Rather than converting to an actual charset (such as utf-8, iso-8859-1), the binary data is decoded, and the decoded bytes are passed
        to the underlying encryptor, hashing, signing, etc.
ANSI
us-ascii
unicode
unicodefffe
iso-8859-1
iso-8859-2
iso-8859-3
iso-8859-4
iso-8859-5
iso-8859-6
iso-8859-7
iso-8859-8
iso-8859-9
iso-8859-13
iso-8859-15
windows-874
windows-1250
windows-1251
windows-1252
windows-1253
windows-1254
windows-1255
windows-1256
windows-1257
windows-1258
utf-7
utf-8
utf-32
utf-32be
shift_jis
gb2312
ks_c_5601-1987
big5
iso-2022-jp
iso-2022-kr
euc-jp
euc-kr
macintosh
x-mac-japanese
x-mac-chinesetrad
x-mac-korean
x-mac-arabic
x-mac-hebrew
x-mac-greek
x-mac-cyrillic
x-mac-chinesesimp
x-mac-romanian
x-mac-ukrainian
x-mac-thai
x-mac-ce
x-mac-icelandic
x-mac-turkish
x-mac-croatian
asmo-708
dos-720
dos-862
ibm037
ibm437
ibm500
ibm737
ibm775
ibm850
ibm852
ibm855
ibm857
ibm00858
ibm860
ibm861
ibm863
ibm864
ibm865
cp866
ibm869
ibm870
cp875
koi8-r
koi8-u

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CipherMode
CipherMode As String

Controls the cipher mode for block encryption algorithms (AES, Blowfish,TwoFish, DES, 3DES, RC2). Possible values are "CBC" (the default) , "ECB", "CTR", "OFB", "GCM", and "CFB". These acronyms have the following meanings:

  • CBC: Cipher Block Chaining,
  • ECB: Electronic CookBook
  • CTR: Counter Mode
  • CFB: Cipher Feedback
  • OFB: Output Feedback
  • GCM: Galois/Counter Mode
  • XTS: AES-XTS (starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.91)

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_modes_of_operation )

Note: Prior to Chilkat v9.5.0.55, the CFB mode is only implemented for AES, Blowfish, and DES/3DES, and the CTR mode is only implemented for AES.

Starting in v9.5.0.55 CFB and OFB modes are useable with all encryption algorithms, and GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) is available with any cipher having a 16-byte block size, such as AES and Twofish. CFB, OFB, CTR, and GCM modes convert block ciphers into stream ciphers. In these modes of operation, the PaddingScheme property is unused because no padding occurs.

Starting in v9.5.0.91 Chilkat supports AES-XTS mode. XTS mode additionally uses a tweak key and tweak value, which are set via the XtsSetEncodedTweakKey, XtsSetEncodedTweakValue, and XtsSetDataUnitNumber. (The latter two functions provide alternative means of setting the tweak value.) Note: Chilkat fully supports AES-XTS mode with ciphertext-stealing, which means it will correctly encrypt/decrypt data with size not divisible by the block size (i.e. divisible by 16 bytes).

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CmsOptions
CmsOptions As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.78

A JSON string for controlling extra CMS (PKCS7) signature and validation options.

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CryptAlgorithm
CryptAlgorithm As String

Selects the encryption algorithm for encrypting and decrypting. Possible values are: "chacha20", "pki", "aes", "blowfish2", "des", "3des", "rc2", "arc4", "twofish", "pbes1" and "pbes2". The "pki" encryption algorithm isn't a specific algorithm, but instead tells the component to encrypt/decrypt using public-key encryption with digital certificates. The other choices are symmetric encryption algorithms that do not involve digital certificates and public/private keys.

The default value is "aes"

The original Chilkat implementation of Blowfish (in 2004) has a 4321 byte-swapping issue (the results are 4321 byte-swapped). The newer implementation (in 2006 and named "blowfish2") does not byte swap. This should be used for compatibility with other Blowfish software. If an application needs to decrypt something encrypted with the old 4321 byte-swapped blowfish, set the property to "blowfish_old".

Password-based encryption (PBE) is selected by setting this property to "pbes1" or "pbes2". Password-based encryption is defined in the PKCS5 Password-Based Cryptography Standard at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898. If PBE is used, the underlying encryption algorithm is specified by the PbesAlgorithm property. The underlying encryption (PbesAlgorithm) for PBES1 is limited to 56-bit DES or 64-bit RC2.

Note:The chacha20 algorithm is introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.55.

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DebugLogFilePath
DebugLogFilePath As String

If set to a file path, causes each Chilkat method or property call to automatically append it's LastErrorText to the specified log file. The information is appended such that if a hang or crash occurs, it is possible to see the context in which the problem occurred, as well as a history of all Chilkat calls up to the point of the problem. The VerboseLogging property can be set to provide more detailed information.

This property is typically used for debugging the rare cases where a Chilkat method call hangs or generates an exception that halts program execution (i.e. crashes). A hang or crash should generally never happen. The typical causes of a hang are:

  1. a timeout related property was set to 0 to explicitly indicate that an infinite timeout is desired,
  2. the hang is actually a hang within an event callback (i.e. it is a hang within the application code), or
  3. there is an internal problem (bug) in the Chilkat code that causes the hang.

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EncodingMode
EncodingMode As String

Controls the encoding of binary data to a printable string for many methods. The valid modes are "Base64", "modBase64", "base64url", "Base32", "Base58", "UU", "QP" (for quoted-printable), "URL" (for url-encoding), "Hex", "Q", "B", "url_oauth", "url_rfc1738", "url_rfc2396", "url_rfc3986", "fingerprint", or "decimal".

The default value is "base64"

The "fingerprint" and"decimal" encodings are introduced in Chilkat v9.5.0.55.

The "fingerprint" encoding is a lowercase hex encoding where each hex digit is separated by a colon character. For example: 6a:de:e0:af:56:f8:0c:04:11:5b:ef:4d:49:ad:09:23

The "decimal" encoding is for converting large decimal integers to/from a big-endian binary representation. For example, the decimal string "72623859790382856" converts to the bytes 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08.

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FirstChunk
FirstChunk As Long

Chilkat Crypt2 provides the ability to feed the encryption/decryption methods with chunks of data. This allows a large amount of data, or a data stream, to be fed piecemeal for encrypting or decrypting. It applies to all symmetric algorithms currently supported (AES, Blowfish, Twofish, 3DES, RC2, DES, ARC4), and all algorithms supported in the future.

The default value for both FirstChunk and LastChunk is 1. This means when an Encrypt* or Decrypt* method is called, it is both the first and last chunk (i.e. it's the entire amount of data to be encrypted or decrypted).

If you wish to feed the data piecemeal, do this:

  1. Set FirstChunk = 1, LastChunk = 0 for the first chunk of data.
  2. For all "middle" chunks (i.e. all chunks except for the final chunk) set FirstChunk = 0 and LastChunk = 0.
  3. For the final chunk, set FirstChunk = 0 and LastChunk = 1

There is no need to worry about feeding data according to the block size of the encryption algorithm. For example, AES has a block size of 16 bytes. Data may be fed in chunks of any size. The Chilkat Crypt2 component will buffer the data. When the final chunk is passed, the output is padded to the algorithm's block size according to the PaddingScheme.

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HashAlgorithm
HashAlgorithm As String

Selects the hash algorithm used by methods that create hashes. The valid choices are "sha1", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512", "sha3-224", "sha3-256", "sha3-384", "sha3-512", "md2", "md5", "haval", "ripemd128", "ripemd160","ripemd256", or "ripemd320".

Note: SHA-2 designates a set of cryptographic hash functions that includes SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. Chilkat by definition supports "SHA-2" because it supports these algorithms.

The default value is "sha1".

Note: The HAVAL hash algorithm is affected by two other properties: HavalRounds and KeyLength.

  • The HavalRounds may have values of 3, 4, or 5.
  • The KeyLength may have values of 128, 160, 192, 224, or 256.

Note: The "sha3-224", "sha3-256", "sha3-384", "sha3-512" algorithms are added in Chilkat v9.5.0.83.

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HavalRounds
HavalRounds As Long

Applies to the HAVAL hash algorithm only and must be set to the integer value 3, 4, or 5. The default value is 3.

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HeartbeatMs
HeartbeatMs As Long

The number of milliseconds between each AbortCheck event callback. The AbortCheck callback allows an application to abort some methods call prior to completion. If HeartbeatMs is 0 (the default), no AbortCheck event callbacks will fire.

The methods with event callbacks are: CkDecryptFile, CkEncryptFile, HashFile, and HashFileENC.

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IncludeCertChain
IncludeCertChain As Long

Only applies when creating digital signatures. If 1 (the default), then additional certificates (if any) in the chain of authentication are included in the PKCS7 digital signature.

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InitialCount
InitialCount As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

The initial counter for the ChaCha20 encryption algorithm. The default value is 0.

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IterationCount
IterationCount As Long

Iteration count to be used with password-based encryption (PBE). Password-based encryption is defined in the PKCS5 Password-Based Cryptography Standard at http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2127

The purpose of the iteration count is to increase the computation required to encrypt and decrypt. A larger iteration count makes cracking via exhaustive search more difficult. The default value is 1024.

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IV
IV As Variant

The initialization vector to be used with symmetric encryption algorithms (AES, Blowfish, Twofish, etc.). If left unset, no initialization vector is used.

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KeyLength
KeyLength As Long

The key length in bits for symmetric encryption algorithms. The default value is 256.

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LastBinaryResult
LastBinaryResult As Variant (read-only)

The binary data returned by the last (binary data returning) method called. Only available if Chilkat.Global.KeepBinaryResult is set to 1. This provides a means for obtaining large varbinary results in the SQL Server environment (where limitations exist in getting large amounts of data returned by method calls, but where temp tables can be used for binary properties).

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LastChunk
LastChunk As Long

(See the description for the FirstChunk property.)

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LastErrorHtml
LastErrorHtml As String (read-only)

Provides information in HTML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastErrorText
LastErrorText As String (read-only)

Provides information in plain-text format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastErrorXml
LastErrorXml As String (read-only)

Provides information in XML format about the last method/property called. If a method call returns a value indicating failure, or behaves unexpectedly, examine this property to get more information.

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LastMethodSuccess
LastMethodSuccess As Long

Indicate whether the last method call succeeded or failed. A value of 1 indicates success, a value of 0 indicates failure. This property is automatically set for method calls. It is not modified by property accesses. The property is automatically set to indicate success for the following types of method calls:

  • Any method that returns a string.
  • Any method returning a Chilkat object, binary bytes, or a date/time.
  • Any method returning a standard boolean status value where success = 1 and failure = 0.
  • Any method returning an integer where failure is defined by a return value less than zero.

Note: Methods that do not fit the above requirements will always set this property equal to 1. For example, a method that returns no value (such as a "void" in C++) will technically always succeed.

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LastStringResult
LastStringResult As String (read-only)

The string return value of the last (string returning) method called. Only available if Chilkat.Global.KeepStringResult is set to 1. This provides a means for obtaining large string results in the SQL Server environment (where limitations exist in getting long strings returned by method calls, but where temp tables can be used for string properties).

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LastStringResultLen
LastStringResultLen As Long (read-only)

The length, in characters, of the string contained in the LastStringResult property.

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MacAlgorithm
MacAlgorithm As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Selects the MAC algorithm to be used for any of the Mac methods, such as MacStringENC, MacBytes, etc. The default value is "hmac". Possible values are "hmac" and "poly1305".

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NumSignerCerts
NumSignerCerts As Long (read-only)

This property is set when a digital signature is verified. It contains the number of signer certificates. Each signing certificate can be retrieved by calling the GetSignerCert method, passing an index from 0 to NumSignerCerts-1.

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OaepHash
OaepHash As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Selects the hash algorithm for use within OAEP padding when encrypting using "pki" with RSAES-OAEP. The valid choices are "sha1", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512",

The default value is "sha256"

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OaepMgfHash
OaepMgfHash As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.71

Selects the MGF hash algorithm for use within OAEP padding when encrypting using "pki" with RSAES-OAEP. The valid choices are "sha1", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512", The default is "sha1".

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OaepPadding
OaepPadding As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Selects the RSA encryption scheme when encrypting using "pki" (with a certificate and private key). The default value is 0, which selects RSAES_PKCS1-V1_5. If set to 1, then RSAES_OAEP is used.

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PaddingScheme
PaddingScheme As Long

The padding scheme used by block encryption algorithms such as AES (Rijndael), Blowfish, Twofish, RC2, DES, 3DES, etc. Block encryption algorithms pad encrypted data to a multiple of algorithm's block size. The default value of this property is 0.

Possible values are:

0 = RFC 1423 padding scheme: Each padding byte is set to the number of padding bytes. If the data is already a multiple of algorithm's block size bytes, an extra block is appended each having a value equal to the block size. (for example, if the algorithm's block size is 16, then 16 bytes having the value 0x10 are added.). (This is also known as PKCS5 padding: PKCS #5 padding string consists of a sequence of bytes, each of which is equal to the total number of padding bytes added. )

1 = FIPS81 (Federal Information Processing Standards 81) where the last byte contains the number of padding bytes, including itself, and the other padding bytes are set to random values.

2 = Each padding byte is set to a random value. The decryptor must know how many bytes are in the original unencrypted data.

3 = Pad with NULLs. (If already a multiple of the algorithm's block size, no padding is added).

4 = Pad with SPACE chars(0x20). (If already a multiple of algorithm's block size, no padding is added).

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PbesAlgorithm
PbesAlgorithm As String

If the CryptAlgorithm property is set to "pbes1" or "pbes2", this property specifies the underlying encryption algorithm to be used with password-based encryption (PBE). Password-based encryption is defined in the PKCS5 Password-Based Cryptography Standard at http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2127

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PbesPassword
PbesPassword As String

The password to be used with password-based encryption (PBE). Password-based encryption is defined in the PKCS5 Password-Based Cryptography Standard at http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2127

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Pkcs7CryptAlg
Pkcs7CryptAlg As String

When the CryptAlgorithm property is "PKI" to select PKCS7 public-key encryption, this selects the underlying symmetric encryption algorithm. Possible values are: "aes", "des", "3des", and "rc2". The default value is "aes".

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Rc2EffectiveKeyLength
Rc2EffectiveKeyLength As Long

The effective key length (in bits) for the RC2 encryption algorithm. When RC2 is used, both the KeyLength and Rc2EffectiveKeyLength properties should be set. For RC2, both should be between 8 and 1024 (inclusive).

The default value is 128

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Salt
Salt As Variant

The salt to be used with password-based encryption (PBE). Password-based encryption is defined in the PKCS5 Password-Based Cryptography Standard at http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2127

To clarify: This property is used in encryption when the CryptAlgorithm is set to "pbes1" or "pbes2". Also note that it is not used by the Pbkdf1 or Pbkdf2 methods, as the salt is passed in an argument to those methods.

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SecretKey
SecretKey As Variant

The binary secret key used for symmetric encryption (Aes, Blowfish, Twofish, ChaCha20, ARC4, 3DES, RC2, etc.). The secret key must be identical for decryption to succeed. The length in bytes of the SecretKey must equal the KeyLength/8.

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SigningAlg
SigningAlg As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

This property selects the signature algorithm for the OpaqueSign*, Sign*, and CreateDetachedSignature, CreateP7M, and CreateP7S methods. The default value is "PKCS1-v1_5". This can be set to "RSASSA-PSS" (or simply "pss") to use the RSASSA-PSS signature scheme.

Note: This property only applies when the private key is an RSA private key. It does not apply for ECC or DSA private keys.

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SigningAttributes
SigningAttributes As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.75

Contains JSON to specify the authenticated (signed) attributes or unauthenticated (unsigned) attributes that are to be included in CMS signatures. The default value is:

{
    "contentType": 1,
    "signingTime": 1,
    "messageDigest": 1
}

Other possible values that can be added are:

  • signingCertificateV2
  • signingCertificate
  • sMIMECapabilities
  • microsoftRecipientInfo
  • encrypKeyPref
  • cmsAlgorithmProtection
Contact Chilkat (support@chilkatsoft.com) about other signed/unsigned attributes that may be needed for CAdES signatures.

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UncommonOptions
UncommonOptions As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.83

This is a catch-all property to be used for uncommon needs. This property defaults to the empty string and should typically remain empty.

Can be set to a list of the following comma separated keywords:

  • "UseConstructedOctets" - Introduced in v9.5.0.83. When creating opaque CMS signatures (signatures that embed the data being signed), will use the "constructed octets" form of the ASN.1 that holds the data. This is to satify some validators that are brittle/fragile/picky and require a particular format, such as for the ICP-Brazil Digital Signature Standard.

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UuFilename
UuFilename As String

When UU encoding, this is the filename to be embedded in UU encoded output. The default is "file.dat". When UU decoding, this is the filename found in the UU encoded input.

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UuMode
UuMode As String

When UU encoding, this is the file permissions mode to be embedded in UU encoded output. The default is "644". When UU decoding, this property is set to the mode found in the UU encoded input.

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VerboseLogging
VerboseLogging As Long

If set to 1, then the contents of LastErrorText (or LastErrorXml, or LastErrorHtml) may contain more verbose information. The default value is 0. Verbose logging should only be used for debugging. The potentially large quantity of logged information may adversely affect peformance.

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Version
Version As String (read-only)

Version of the component/library, such as "9.5.0.94"

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Methods

AddEncryptCert
AddEncryptCert(cert As ChilkatCert)

Adds a certificate to be used for public-key encryption. (To use public-key encryption with digital certificates, set the CryptAlgorithm property = "pki".) To encrypt with more than one certificate , call AddEncryptCert once per certificate.

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AddPfxSourceData
AddPfxSourceData(pfxBytes As Variant, pfxPassword As String) As Long

Adds a PFX to the object's internal list of sources to be searched for certificates and private keys when decrypting. Multiple PFX sources can be added by calling this method once for each. (On the Windows operating system, the registry-based certificate stores are also automatically searched, so it is commonly not required to explicitly add PFX sources.)

The pfxBytes contains the bytes of a PFX file (also known as PKCS12 or .p12).

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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AddPfxSourceFile
AddPfxSourceFile(pfxFilePath As String, pfxPassword As String) As Long

Adds a PFX file to the object's internal list of sources to be searched for certificates and private keys when decrypting. Multiple PFX files can be added by calling this method once for each. (On the Windows operating system, the registry-based certificate stores are also automatically searched, so it is commonly not required to explicitly add PFX sources.)

The pfxFilePath contains the bytes of a PFX file (also known as PKCS12 or .p12).

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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AddSigningCert
AddSigningCert(cert As ChilkatCert) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.83

Adds a certificate to be used for signing. To sign with more than one certificate, call AddSigningCert once per certificate.

Note: This method was added in v9.5.0.83. The SetSigningCert and SetSigningCert2 methods are used to set the signing certificate for signatures with one signer.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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AesKeyUnwrap
AesKeyUnwrap(kek As String, wrappedKeyData As String, encoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.66

Implements the AES Key Wrap Algorithm (RFC 3394) for unwrapping. The kek is the Key Encryption Key (the AES key used to unwrap the wrappedKeyData). The arguments and return value are binary encoded strings using the encoding specified by encoding (which can be "base64", "hex", "base64url", etc.) The full list of supported encodings is available at the link below.

The kek should be an AES key of 16 bytes, 24 bytes, or 32 bytes (i.e. 128-bits, 192- bits, or 256-bits). For example, if passed as a hex string, then the kek should be 32 chars in length, 48 chars, or 64 chars (because each byte is represented as 2 chars in hex).

The wrappedKeyData contains the data to be unwrapped. The result, if decoded, is 8 bytes less than the wrapped key data. For example, if a 256-bit AES key (32 bytes) is wrapped, the size of the wrapped key data is 40 bytes. Unwrapping restores it to the original 32 bytes.

Returns Nothing on failure

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AesKeyUnwrapWithPadding
AesKeyUnwrapWithPadding(kek As String, wrappedKeyData As String, encoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.96

Implements the AES Key Wrap with Padding Algorithm (RFC 5649) for unwrapping. The kek is the Key Encryption Key (the AES key used to unwrap the wrappedKeyData). The arguments and return value are binary encoded strings using the encoding specified by encoding (which can be "base64", "hex", "base64url", etc.)

The kek should be an AES key of 16 bytes, 24 bytes, or 32 bytes (i.e. 128-bits, 192- bits, or 256-bits). For example, if passed as a hex string, then the kek should be 32 chars in length, 48 chars, or 64 chars (because each byte is represented as 2 chars in hex).

The wrappedKeyData contains the data to be unwrapped.

The unwrapped key is returned as an encoded string (using the encoding specified in encoding).

Returns Nothing on failure

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AesKeyWrap
AesKeyWrap(kek As String, keyData As String, encoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.66

Implements the AES Key Wrap Algorithm (RFC 3394). The kek is the Key Encryption Key (the AES key used to encrypt the keyData). The arguments and return value are binary encoded strings using the encoding specified by encoding (which can be "base64", "hex", "base64url", etc.) The full list of supported encodings is available at the link below.

The kek should be an AES key of 16 bytes, 24 bytes, or 32 bytes (i.e. 128-bits, 192- bits, or 256-bits). For example, if passed as a hex string, then the kek should be 32 chars in length, 48 chars, or 64 chars (because each byte is represented as 2 chars in hex).

The keyData contains the data to be key wrapped. It must be a multiple of 64-bits in length. In other words, if the keyData is decoded to binary, it should be a number of bytes that is a multiple of 8.

The return string, if decoded to binary bytes, is equal to the size of the key data + 8 additional bytes.

Returns Nothing on failure

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AesKeyWrapWithPadding
AesKeyWrapWithPadding(kek As String, keyData As String, encoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.96

Implements the AES Key Wrap with Padding Algorithm (RFC 5649). The kek is the Key Encryption Key (the AES key used to encrypt the keyData). The arguments and return value are binary encoded strings using the encoding specified by encoding (which can be "base64", "hex", "base64url", etc.)

The kek should be an AES key of 16 bytes, 24 bytes, or 32 bytes (i.e. 128-bits, 192- bits, or 256-bits). For example, if passed as a hex string, then the kek should be 32 chars in length, 48 chars, or 64 chars (because each byte is represented as 2 chars in hex).

The keyData contains the data to be key wrapped.

Returns the wrapped key using the encoding specified in encoding.

Returns Nothing on failure

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BCryptHash
BCryptHash(password As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.65

Computes and returns a bcrypt hash of the password. The number of rounds of hashing is determined by the BCryptWorkFactor property.

Starting in v9.5.0.76, if the password is prefixed with "$2b$" then the output will use the $2b version of bcrypt. For example, to create a "$2b$" bcrypt has for the password "secret", pass in the string "$2b$secret" for password.

Returns Nothing on failure

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BCryptVerify
BCryptVerify(password As String, bcryptHash As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.65

Verifies the password against a previously computed BCrypt hash. Returns 1 if the password matches the bcryptHash. Returns 0 if the password does not match.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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BytesToString
BytesToString(inData As Variant, charset As String) As String

Utility method to convert bytes to a string -- interpreting the bytes according to the charset specified.

Returns Nothing on failure

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ByteSwap4321
ByteSwap4321(data As Variant) As Variant

Convenience method for byte swapping between little-endian byte ordering and big-endian byte ordering.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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CkDecryptFile
CkDecryptFile(srcFile As String, destFile As String) As Long

File-to-file decryption. There is no limit to the size of the file that can be decrypted because the component will operate in streaming mode internally.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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CkDecryptFileAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
CkDecryptFileAsync(srcFile As String, destFile As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CkDecryptFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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CkEncryptFile
CkEncryptFile(srcFile As String, destFile As String) As Long

File-to-file encryption. There is no limit to the size of the file that can be encrypted because the component will operate in streaming mode internally.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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CkEncryptFileAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
CkEncryptFileAsync(srcFile As String, destFile As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CkEncryptFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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ClearEncryptCerts
ClearEncryptCerts()

Clears the internal list of digital certificates to be used for public-key encryption.

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ClearSigningCerts
ClearSigningCerts()
Introduced in version 9.5.0.83

Clears the set of certificates to be used in signing.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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CompressBytes
CompressBytes(data As Variant) As Variant

Bzip2 compresses a byte array and returns the compressed bytes.

This is a legacy method that should not be used in new development. It will not be marked as deprecated or removed from future APIs because existing applications may have data already compressed using this method.

The output of this method includes an 8-byte header composed of a 4-byte magic number (0xB394A7E1) and the 4-byte length of the uncompressed data.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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CompressBytesENC
CompressBytesENC(data As Variant) As String

Same as CompressBytes, except an encoded string is returned. The output encoding is specified by the EncodingMode property.

Returns Nothing on failure

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CompressString
CompressString(str As String) As Variant

Compresses a string and returns the compressed bytes. Prior to compressing, the string is converted to a byte representation such as utf-8, utf-16, etc. as determined by the Charset property. Otherwise, this method is the same as the CompressBytes method.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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CompressStringENC
CompressStringENC(str As String) As String

Compresses a string and returns the encoded compressed bytes. Prior to compressing, the string is converted to a byte representation such as utf-8, utf-16, etc. as determined by the Charset property. The output encoding is specified by the EncodingMode property. Otherwise, this method is the same as the CompressBytes method.

Returns Nothing on failure

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CoSign
CoSign(bdIn As ChilkatBinData, cert As ChilkatCert, bdOut As ChilkatBinData) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.89

Co-sign's an existing CMS signature. bdIn contains the existing CMS signature. If successful, cert is the output co-signed CMS signature.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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CrcBytes
CrcBytes(crcAlg As String, byteData As Variant) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

Calculates a CRC for in-memory byte data. To compute the CRC used in the Zip file format, pass "CRC-32" (or CRC32, case insensitive) for the crcAlg. (The crcAlg argument provides the flexibility to add additional CRC algorithms on an as-needed basis in the future.)

Starting in v9.5.0.88, crc8 can be computed by passing "CRC8" in crcAlg.

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CrcFile
CrcFile(crcAlg As String, path As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

Calculates a CRC for the contents of a file. To compute the CRC used in the Zip file format, pass "CRC-32" for the crcAlg. (The crcAlg argument provides the flexibility to add additional CRC algorithms on an as-needed basis in the future.) A value of 0 is returned if the file is unable to be read. Given that there is a 1 in 4 billion chance of having an actual CRC of 0, an application might choose to react to a 0 return value by testing to see if the file can be opened and read.

Starting in v9.5.0.88, crc8 can be computed by passing "CRC8" in crcAlg.

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CrcFileAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
CrcFileAsync(crcAlg As String, path As String) As ChilkatTask
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CrcFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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CreateDetachedSignature
CreateDetachedSignature(inFilePath As String, sigFilePath As String) As Long

Digitally signs a file and writes the digital signature to a separate output file (a PKCS#7 signature file). The input file (inFilePath) is unmodified. A certificate for signing must be specified by calling SetSigningCert or SetSigningCert2 prior to calling this method.

This method is equivalent to CreateP7S. The CreateP7S method was added to clarify the format of the signature file that is created.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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CreateP7M
CreateP7M(inFilename As String, p7mPath As String) As Long

Digitally signs a file and creates a .p7m (PKCS #7 Message) file that contains both the signature and original file content. The input file (inFilename) is unmodified. A certificate for signing must be specified by calling SetSigningCert or SetSigningCert2 prior to calling this method.

To sign with a particular hash algorithm, set the HashAlgorithm property. Valid hash algorithms for signing are "sha256", "sha1", "sha384", "sha512", "md5", and "md2".

Note: The CreateP7M method creates an opaque signature. To do the same thing entirely in memory, your application would call any of the OpaqueSign* methods, such as OpaqueSignBd, OpaqueSignString, OpaqueSignStringENC, etc.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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CreateP7MAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
CreateP7MAsync(inFilename As String, p7mPath As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CreateP7M method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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CreateP7S
CreateP7S(inFilename As String, p7sPath As String) As Long

Digitally signs a file and creates a .p7s (PKCS #7 Signature) signature file. The input file (inFilename) is unmodified. The output file (p7sPath) contains only the signature and not the original data. A certificate for signing must be specified by calling SetSigningCert or SetSigningCert2 prior to calling this method.

To sign with a particular hash algorithm, set the HashAlgorithm property. Valid hash algorithms for signing are "sha256", "sha1", "sha384", "sha512", "md5", and "md2".

Note: The CreateP7S method creates a detached signature. To do the same thing entirely in memory, your application would call any of the Sign* methods, such as SignBdENC, SignString, SignStringENC, SignSbENC, etc.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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CreateP7SAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
CreateP7SAsync(inFilename As String, p7sPath As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the CreateP7S method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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Decode
Decode(str As String, encoding As String) As Variant

Decode binary data from an encoded string. The encoding can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "url", "base32", "Q", "B", "url_rc1738", "url_rfc2396", "url_rfc3986", "url_oauth", "uu", "modBase64", or "html" (for HTML entity encoding).

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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DecodeString
DecodeString(inStr As String, charset As String, encoding As String) As String

Decodes from an encoding back to the original string. The encoding can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "url", "base32", "Q", "B", "url_rc1738", "url_rfc2396", "url_rfc3986", "url_oauth", "uu", "modBase64", or "html" (for HTML entity encoding).

Returns Nothing on failure

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DecryptBd
DecryptBd(bd As ChilkatBinData) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

In-place decrypts the contents of bd. The minimal set of properties that should be set before decrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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DecryptBytes
DecryptBytes(data As Variant) As Variant

Decrypts a byte array and returns the unencrypted byte array. The property settings used when encrypting the data must match the settings when decrypting. Specifically, the CryptAlgorithm, CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV, and SecretKey properties must match.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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DecryptBytesENC
DecryptBytesENC(str As String) As Variant

Decrypts string-encoded encrypted data and returns the unencrypted byte array. Data encrypted with EncryptBytesENC can be decrypted with this method. The property settings used when encrypting the data must match the settings when decrypting. Specifically, the EncodingMode, CryptAlgorithm, CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV, and SecretKey properties must match.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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DecryptEncoded
DecryptEncoded(encodedEncryptedData As String) As String

Encrypted data is passed to this method as an encoded string (base64, hex, etc.). This method first decodes the input data according to the EncodingMode property setting. It then decrypts and re-encodes using the EncodingMode setting, and returns the decrypted data in encoded string form.

Returns Nothing on failure

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DecryptSb
DecryptSb(bdIn As ChilkatBinData, sbOut As ChilkatStringBuilder) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Decrypts the contents of bdIn to sbOut. The decrypted string is appended to sbOut. The minimal set of properties that should be set before ecrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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DecryptSecureENC
DecryptSecureENC(cipherText As String, secureStr As ChilkatSecureString) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.71

Identical to DecryptStringENC, except the decrypts the cipherText and appends the decrypted string to the secureStr.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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DecryptStream
DecryptStream(strm As ChilkatStream) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.56

Decrypts a stream. Internally, the strm's source is read, decrypted, and the decrypted data written to the strm's sink. It does this in streaming fashion. Extremely large or even infinite streams can be decrypted with stable ungrowing memory usage.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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DecryptStreamAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
DecryptStreamAsync(strm As ChilkatStream) As ChilkatTask
Introduced in version 9.5.0.56

Creates an asynchronous task to call the DecryptStream method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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DecryptString
DecryptString(data As Variant) As String

The reverse of EncryptString.

Decrypts encrypted byte data and returns the original string. The property settings used when encrypting the string must match the settings when decrypting. Specifically, the Charset, CryptAlgorithm, CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV, and SecretKey properties must match.

Returns Nothing on failure

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DecryptStringENC
DecryptStringENC(str As String) As String

The reverse of EncryptStringENC.

Decrypts string-encoded encrypted data and returns the original string. The property settings used when encrypting the string must match the settings when decrypting. Specifically, the Charset, EncodingMode, CryptAlgorithm, CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV, and SecretKey properties must match.

Returns Nothing on failure

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Encode
Encode(byteData As Variant, encoding As String) As String

Encode binary data to base64, hex, quoted-printable, or URL-encoding. The encoding can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable" (or "qp"), "url", "base32", "Q", "B", "url_rc1738", "url_rfc2396", "url_rfc3986", "url_oauth", "uu", "modBase64", or "html" (for HTML entity encoding).

Returns Nothing on failure

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EncodeInt
EncodeInt(ByVal value As Long, ByVal numBytes As Long, ByVal littleEndian As Long, encoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Encodes an integer to N bytes and returns in the specified encoding. If littleEndian is 1, then little endian byte ordering is used. Otherwise big-endian byte order is used.

Returns Nothing on failure

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EncodeString
EncodeString(strToEncode As String, charsetName As String, toEncodingName As String) As String

Encodes a string. The toEncodingName can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "url", "base32", "Q", "B", "url_rc1738", "url_rfc2396", "url_rfc3986", "url_oauth", "uu", "modBase64", or "html" (for HTML entity encoding). The charsetName is important, and usually you'll want to specify "ansi". For example, if the string "ABC" is to be encoded to "hex" using ANSI, the result will be "414243". However, if "unicode" is used, the result is "410042004300".

Returns Nothing on failure

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EncryptBd
EncryptBd(bd As ChilkatBinData) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

In-place encrypts the contents of bd. The minimal set of properties that should be set before encrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV. When decrypting, all property settings must match otherwise the result is garbled data.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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EncryptBytes
EncryptBytes(data As Variant) As Variant

Encrypts a byte array. The minimal set of properties that should be set before encrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV. When decrypting, all property settings must match otherwise garbled data is returned.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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EncryptBytesENC
EncryptBytesENC(data As Variant) As String

Encrypts a byte array and returns the encrypted data as an encoded (printable) string. The minimal set of properties that should be set before encrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey, EncodingMode. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV. When decrypting, all property settings must match otherwise garbled data is returned. The encoding of the string that is returned is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "Base64", "QP", or "Hex".

Returns Nothing on failure

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EncryptEncoded
EncryptEncoded(str As String) As String

The input string is first decoded according to the encoding algorithm specified by the EncodingMode property (such as base64, hex, etc.) It is then encrypted according to the encryption algorithm specified by CryptAlgorithm. The resulting encrypted data is encoded (using EncodingMode) and returned.

Returns Nothing on failure

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EncryptSb
EncryptSb(sbIn As ChilkatStringBuilder, bdOut As ChilkatBinData) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Encrypts the contents of sbIn to bdOut. The minimal set of properties that should be set before ecrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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EncryptSecureENC
EncryptSecureENC(secureStr As ChilkatSecureString) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.71

Identical to EncryptStringENC, except the clear-text contained within the secureStr is encrypted and returned.

Returns Nothing on failure

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EncryptStream
EncryptStream(strm As ChilkatStream) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.56

Encrypts a stream. Internally, the strm's source is read, encrypted, and the encrypted data written to the strm's sink. It does this in streaming fashion. Extremely large or even infinite streams can be encrypted with stable ungrowing memory usage.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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EncryptStreamAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
EncryptStreamAsync(strm As ChilkatStream) As ChilkatTask
Introduced in version 9.5.0.56

Creates an asynchronous task to call the EncryptStream method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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EncryptString
EncryptString(str As String) As Variant

Encrypts a string and returns the encrypted data as a byte array. The minimal set of properties that should be set before encrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey, Charset. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV. When decrypting, all property settings must match otherwise garbled data is returned. The Charset property controls the exact bytes that get encrypted. Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings, thus the input string is Unicode. If Unicode is to be encrypted (i.e. 2 bytes per character) then set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert the string to another charset before the encryption is applied, set the Charset property to something else, such as "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "big5", "windows-1252", etc. The complete list of possible charsets is listed here:

<font size="2" face="MS Sans Serif">
us-ascii
unicode
unicodefffe
iso-8859-1
iso-8859-2
iso-8859-3
iso-8859-4
iso-8859-5
iso-8859-6
iso-8859-7
iso-8859-8
iso-8859-9
iso-8859-13
iso-8859-15
windows-874
windows-1250
windows-1251
windows-1252
windows-1253
windows-1254
windows-1255
windows-1256
windows-1257
windows-1258
utf-7
utf-8
utf-32
utf-32be
shift_jis
gb2312
ks_c_5601-1987
big5
iso-2022-jp
iso-2022-kr
euc-jp
euc-kr
macintosh
x-mac-japanese
x-mac-chinesetrad
x-mac-korean
x-mac-arabic
x-mac-hebrew
x-mac-greek
x-mac-cyrillic
x-mac-chinesesimp
x-mac-romanian
x-mac-ukrainian
x-mac-thai
x-mac-ce
x-mac-icelandic
x-mac-turkish
x-mac-croatian
asmo-708
dos-720
dos-862
ibm037
ibm437
ibm500
ibm737
ibm775
ibm850
ibm852
ibm855
ibm857
ibm00858
ibm860
ibm861
ibm863
ibm864
ibm865
cp866
ibm869
ibm870
cp875
koi8-r
koi8-u
</font>

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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EncryptStringENC
EncryptStringENC(str As String) As String

Encrypts a string and returns the encrypted data as an encoded (printable) string. The minimal set of properties that should be set before encrypting are: CryptAlgorithm, SecretKey, Charset, and EncodingMode. Other properties that control encryption are: CipherMode, PaddingScheme, KeyLength, IV. When decrypting (with DecryptStringENC), all property settings must match otherwise garbled data is returned. The Charset property controls the exact bytes that get encrypted. Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings, thus the input string is Unicode. If Unicode is to be encrypted (i.e. 2 bytes per character) then set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert the string to another charset before the encryption is applied, set the Charset property to something else, such as "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "big5", "windows-1252", etc. (Refer to EncryptString for the complete list of charsets.)

The EncodingMode property controls the encoding of the string that is returned. It can be set to "Base64", "QP", or "Hex".

Returns Nothing on failure

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GenEncodedSecretKey
GenEncodedSecretKey(password As String, encoding As String) As String

Important: In the v9.5.0.49 release, a bug involving this method was introduced: The encoding is ignored and instead the encoding used is the current value of the EncodingMode property. The workaround is to make sure the EncodingMode property is set to the value of the desired output encoding. This problem will be fixed in v9.5.0.50.

Identical to the GenerateSecretKey method, except it returns the binary secret key as a string encoded according to encoding, which may be "base64", "hex", "url", etc. Please see the documentation for GenerateSecretKey for more information.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GenerateSecretKey
GenerateSecretKey(password As String) As Variant

Hashes a string to a byte array that has the same number of bits as the current value of the KeyLength property. For example, if KeyLength is equal to 128 bits, then a 16-byte array is returned. This can be used to set the SecretKey property. In order to decrypt, the SecretKey must match exactly. To use "password-based" encryption, the password is passed to this method to generate a binary secret key that can then be assigned to the SecretKey property.

IMPORTANT: If you are trying to decrypt something encrypted by another party such that the other party provided you with the secret key, DO NOT use this method. This method is for transforming an arbitrary-length password into a binary secret key of the proper length. Please see this Chilkat blog post: Getting Started with AES Decryption

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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GenerateUuid
GenerateUuid() As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Generates a random UUID string having standard UUID format, such as "de305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546014".

Note: This generates a "version 4 UUID" using random byte values. See RFC 4122.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GenRandomBytesENC
GenRandomBytesENC(ByVal numBytes As Long) As String

Generates numBytes random bytes and returns them as an encoded string. The encoding, such as base64, hex, etc. is controlled by the EncodingMode property.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetDecryptCert
GetDecryptCert() As ChilkatCert
Introduced in version 9.5.0.46

Returns the last certificate used for public-key decryption.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetEncodedAad
GetEncodedAad(encoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Returns the authenticated additional data as an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", or "url".

The Aad is used when the CipherMode is "gcm" (Galois/Counter Mode), which is a mode valid for symmetric ciphers that have a block size of 16 bytes, such as AES or Twofish.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetEncodedAuthTag
GetEncodedAuthTag(encoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Returns the authentication tag as an encoded string. The encoding argument may be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", or "url". The authentication tag is an output of authenticated encryption modes such as GCM when encrypting. When GCM mode decrypting, the authenticate tag is set by the application and is the expected result.

The authenticated tag plays a role when the CipherMode is "gcm" (Galois/Counter Mode), which is a mode valid for symmetric block ciphers that have a block size of 16 bytes, such as AES or Twofish.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetEncodedIV
GetEncodedIV(encoding As String) As String

Returns the initialization vector as an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", or "url".

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetEncodedKey
GetEncodedKey(encoding As String) As String

Returns the secret key as an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", or "url".

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetEncodedSalt
GetEncodedSalt(encoding As String) As String

Returns the password-based encryption (PBE) salt bytes as an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", or "url".

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetLastCert
GetLastCert() As ChilkatCert

Returns the last certificate used when verifying a signature. This method is deprecated. Applications should instead call GetSignerCert with an index of 0.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetSignatureSigningTimeStr
GetSignatureSigningTimeStr(ByVal index As Long) As String

This method retrieves the signing time of the Nth certificate used in a digital signature, after verification. The first certificate's signing time is at index index 0. The NumSignerCerts property indicates the total number of signing certificates (typically, only one is used).

Note: Before retrieving the signing time for a certificate, use the HasSignatureSigningTime method to check its availability. Skip indices without a signing time.

The signing time is returned in RFC822 string format.

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetSignedAttributes
GetSignedAttributes(ByVal signerIndex As Long, pkcs7Der As ChilkatBinData, sbJson As ChilkatStringBuilder) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.75

Extracts the signed (authenticated) attributes for the Nth signer. In most cases, a signature has only one signer, and the signerIndex should equal 0 to specify the 1st (and only) signer.

The binary PKCS7 is passed in pkcs7Der. On success, the sbJson will contain the signed attributes in JSON format.

Sample JSON output:

{
  "signedAttributes": [
    {
      "oid": "1.2.840.113549.1.9.3",
      "name": "Content Type"
    },
    {
      "oid": "1.2.840.113549.1.9.5",
      "name": "Signing Time"
    },
    {
      "oid": "1.2.840.113549.1.9.4",
      "name": "Message Digest"
    },
    {
      "oid": "1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.2.47",
      "name": "Signing Certificate V2"
    }
  ]
}

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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GetSignerCert
GetSignerCert(ByVal index As Long) As ChilkatCert

Gets the Nth certificate used for signing. This method can be called after verifying a digital signature to get the signer certs. The 1st certificate is at index 0. The NumSignerCerts property contains the total number of signing certificates. (Typically, a single certificate is used in creating a digital signature.)

Returns Nothing on failure

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GetSignerCertChain
GetSignerCertChain(ByVal index As Long) As ChilkatCertChain
Introduced in version 9.5.0.40

Returns the full certificate chain for the Nth certificate used to for signing. Indexing begins at 0.

Returns Nothing on failure

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HashBdENC
HashBdENC(bd As ChilkatBinData) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.66

Hashes the the bytes contained in bd and returns the hash as an encoded string.

The hash algorithm is specified by the HashAlgorithm property, The encoding is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "base64", "hex", "base64url", or any of the encodings listed at the link below.

Returns Nothing on failure

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HashBeginBytes
HashBeginBytes(data As Variant) As Long

Begin hashing a byte stream. Call this method to hash the 1st chunk. Additional chunks are hashed by calling HashMoreBytes 0 or more times followed by a final call to HashFinal (or HashFinalENC) to retrieve the result. The hash algorithm is selected by the HashAlgorithm property setting.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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HashBeginString
HashBeginString(strData As String) As Long

Begin hashing a text stream. Call this method to hash the 1st chunk. Additional chunks are hashed by calling HashMoreString 0 or more times followed by a final call to HashFinal (or HashFinalENC) to retrieve the result. The hash algorithm is selected by the HashAlgorithm property setting.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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HashBytes
HashBytes(data As Variant) As Variant

Hashes a byte array.

The hash algorithm is specified by the HashAlgorithm property, The encoding is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "base64", "hex", "base64url", or any of the encodings listed at the link below.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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HashBytesENC
HashBytesENC(data As Variant) As String

Hashes a byte array and returns the hash as an encoded string.

The hash algorithm is specified by the HashAlgorithm property, The encoding is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "base64", "hex", "base64url", or any of the encodings listed at the link below.

Returns Nothing on failure

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HashFile
HashFile(path As String) As Variant

Hashes a file and returns the hash bytes.

The hash algorithm is specified by the HashAlgorithm property,

Any size file may be hashed because the file is hashed internally in streaming mode (keeping memory usage low and constant).

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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HashFileAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
HashFileAsync(path As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the HashFile method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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HashFileENC
HashFileENC(path As String) As String

Hashes a file and returns the hash as an encoded string.

The hash algorithm is specified by the HashAlgorithm property, The encoding is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "base64", "hex", "base64url", or any of the encodings listed at the link below.

Any size file is supported because the file is hashed internally in streaming mode (keeping memory usage low and constant).

Returns Nothing on failure

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HashFileENCAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
HashFileENCAsync(path As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the HashFileENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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HashFinal
HashFinal() As Variant

Finalizes a multi-step hash computation and returns the hash bytes.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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HashFinalENC
HashFinalENC() As String

Finalizes a multi-step hash computation and returns the hash bytes encoded according to the EncodingMode property setting.

Returns Nothing on failure

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HashMoreBytes
HashMoreBytes(data As Variant) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.82

Adds more bytes to the hash currently under computation. (See HashBeginBytes)

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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HashMoreString
HashMoreString(strData As String) As Long

Adds more text to the hash currently under computation. (See HashBeginString)

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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HashString
HashString(str As String) As Variant

Hashes a string and returns a binary hash. The hash algorithm is specified by the HashAlgorithm property,

The Charset property controls the character encoding of the string that is hashed. Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings. If it is desired to hash Unicode directly (2 bytes/char) then set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert to another charset before hashing, set the Charset property to the desired charset. For example, if Charset is set to "iso-8859-1", the input string is first implicitly converted to iso-8859-1 (1 byte per character) before hashing. The full list fo supported charsets is listed in the EncryptString method description.

IMPORTANT: Hash algorithms hash bytes. Changing the bytes passed to a hash algorithm changes the result. A character (i.e. a visible glyph) can have different byte representations. The byte representation is defined by the Charset. For example, 'A' in us-ascii is a single byte 0x41, whereas in utf-16 it is 2 bytes (0x41 0x00). The byte representation should be explicitly specified, otherwise unexpected results may occur.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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HashStringENC
HashStringENC(str As String) As String

Hashes a string and returns the hash bytes as an encoded string.

The hash algorithm is specified by the HashAlgorithm property, The encoding is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "base64", "hex", "base64url", or any of the encodings listed at the link below.

The Charset property controls the character encoding of the string that is hashed. Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings. If it is desired to hash Unicode directly (2 bytes/char) then set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert to another charset before hashing, set the Charset property to the desired charset. For example, if Charset is set to "iso-8859-1", the input string is first implicitly converted to iso-8859-1 (1 byte per character) before hashing. The full list of supported charsets is listed in the EncryptString method description.

Returns Nothing on failure

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HasSignatureSigningTime
HasSignatureSigningTime(ByVal index As Long) As Long

This method can be called after a digital signature has been verified by one of the Verify* methods. Returns 1 if a signing time for the Nth certificate is available and can be retrieved by either the GetSignatureSigningTime or GetSignatureSigningTimeStr methods.

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Hotp
Hotp(secret As String, secretEnc As String, counterHex As String, ByVal numDigits As Long, ByVal truncOffset As Long, hashAlg As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Implements RFC 4226: HOTP: An HMAC-Based One-Time Password Algorithm. The arguments to this method are:

  • secret: The shared secret in an enocded representation such as base64, hex, ascii, etc.
  • secretEnc: The encoding of the shared secret, such as "base64"
  • counterHex: The 8-byte counter in hexidecimal format.
  • numDigits: The number of decimal digits to return.
  • truncOffset: Normally set this to -1 for dynamic truncation. Otherwise can be set in the range 0..15.
  • hashAlg: Normally set to "sha1". Can be set to other hash algorithms such as "sha256", "sha512", etc.

Returns Nothing on failure

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InflateBytes
InflateBytes(data As Variant) As Variant

Decompresses data that was compressed with CompressBytes.

This is a legacy method that should not be used in new development. It will not be marked as deprecated or removed from future APIs because existing applications may have data already compressed using CompressBytes.

This method expects the input to begin with an 8-byte header composed of a 4-byte magic number (0xB394A7E1) and the 4-byte length of the uncompressed data.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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InflateBytesENC
InflateBytesENC(str As String) As Variant

The opposite of CompressBytesENC. The EncodingMode and CompressionAlgorithm properties should match what was used when compressing.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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InflateString
InflateString(data As Variant) As String

The opposite of CompressString. The Charset and CompressionAlgorithm properties should match what was used when compressing.

Returns Nothing on failure

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InflateStringENC
InflateStringENC(str As String) As String

The opposite of CompressStringENC. The Charset, EncodingMode, and CompressionAlgorithm properties should match what was used when compressing.

Returns Nothing on failure

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LastJsonData
LastJsonData() As ChilkatJsonObject
Introduced in version 9.5.0.70

Provides information about what transpired in the last method called. For many methods, there is no information. For some methods, details about what transpired can be obtained via LastJsonData. For example, after calling a method to verify a signature, the LastJsonData will return JSON with details about the algorithms used for signature verification.

Returns Nothing on failure

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LoadTaskCaller
LoadTaskCaller(task As ChilkatTask) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.80

Loads the caller of the task's async method.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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MacBdENC
MacBdENC(bd As ChilkatBinData) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.66

Computes a Message Authentication Code on the bytes contained in bd, using the MAC algorithm specified in the MacAlgorithm property. The result is encoded to a string using the encoding (base64, hex, etc.) specified by the EncodingMode property.

Returns Nothing on failure

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MacBytes
MacBytes(inBytes As Variant) As Variant
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Computes a Message Authentication Code using the MAC algorithm specified in the MacAlgorithm property.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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MacBytesENC
MacBytesENC(inBytes As Variant) As String

Computes a Message Authentication Code using the MAC algorithm specified in the MacAlgorithm property. The result is encoded to a string using the encoding (base64, hex, etc.) specified by the EncodingMode property.

Returns Nothing on failure

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MacString
MacString(inText As String) As Variant
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Computes a Message Authentication Code using the MAC algorithm specified in the MacAlgorithm property.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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MacStringENC
MacStringENC(inText As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Computes a Message Authentication Code using the MAC algorithm specified in the MacAlgorithm property. The result is encoded to a string using the encoding (base64, hex, etc.) specified by the EncodingMode property.

Returns Nothing on failure

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MySqlAesDecrypt
MySqlAesDecrypt(strEncryptedHex As String, strPassword As String) As String

Matches MySQL's AES_DECRYPT function. strEncryptedHex is a hex-encoded string of the AES encrypted data. The return value is the original unencrypted string.

Returns Nothing on failure

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MySqlAesEncrypt
MySqlAesEncrypt(strData As String, strPassword As String) As String

Matches MySQL's AES_ENCRYPT function. The return value is a hex-encoded string of the encrypted data. The equivalent call in MySQL would look like this: HEX(AES_ENCRYPT('The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog','password'))

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueSignBd
OpaqueSignBd(bd As ChilkatBinData) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

In-place signs the contents of bd. The contents of bd is replaced with the PKCS7/CMS format signature that embeds the data that was signed.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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OpaqueSignBdAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
OpaqueSignBdAsync(bd As ChilkatBinData) As ChilkatTask
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Creates an asynchronous task to call the OpaqueSignBd method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueSignBytes
OpaqueSignBytes(data As Variant) As Variant

Digitally signs a byte array and returns a PKCS7/CMS format signature. This is a signature that contains both the original data as well as the signature. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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OpaqueSignBytesAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
OpaqueSignBytesAsync(data As Variant) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the OpaqueSignBytes method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueSignBytesENC
OpaqueSignBytesENC(data As Variant) As String

Digitally signs a byte array and returns a PKCS7/CMS format signature in encoded string format (such as Base64 or hex). This is a signature that contains both the original data as well as the signature. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method. The EncodingMode property controls the output encoding, which can be "Base64", "QP","Hex", etc. (See the EncodingMode property.)

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueSignBytesENCAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
OpaqueSignBytesENCAsync(data As Variant) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the OpaqueSignBytesENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueSignString
OpaqueSignString(str As String) As Variant

Digitally signs a string and returns a PKCS7/CMS format signature. This is a signature that contains both the original data as well as the signature. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method. The Charset property controls the character encoding of the string that is signed. (Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings.) To sign Unicode data (2 bytes per char), set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert the string to a mutlibyte charset such as "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "utf-8", or something else, then set the Charset property to the name of the charset before signing. The complete list of charsets is listed in the EncryptString method description.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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OpaqueSignStringAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
OpaqueSignStringAsync(str As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the OpaqueSignString method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueSignStringENC
OpaqueSignStringENC(str As String) As String

Digitally signs a string and returns a PKCS7/CMS format signature in encoded string format (such as base64 or hex). This is a signature that contains both the original data as well as the signature. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method. The Charset property controls the character encoding of the string that is signed. (Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings.) To sign Unicode data (2 bytes per char), set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert the string to a mutlibyte charset such as "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "utf-8", or something else, then set the Charset property to the name of the charset before signing. The complete list of charsets is listed in the EncryptString method description.

The EncodingMode property controls the output encoding, which can be "Base64", "QP","Hex", etc. (See the EncodingMode property.)

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueSignStringENCAsync(str As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the OpaqueSignStringENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueVerifyBd
OpaqueVerifyBd(bd As ChilkatBinData) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

In-place verifies and unwraps the PKCS7/CMS contents of bd. If the signature is verified, the contents of bd will be replaced with the original data, and the method returns 1. If the signature is not verified, then the contents of bd remain unchanged and the method returns 0.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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OpaqueVerifyBytes
OpaqueVerifyBytes(p7s As Variant) As Variant

Verifies an opaque signature and returns the original data. If the signature verification fails, the returned data will be 0 bytes in length.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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OpaqueVerifyBytesENC
OpaqueVerifyBytesENC(p7s As String) As Variant

Verifies an opaque signature (encoded in string form) and returns the original data. If the signature verification fails, the returned data will be 0 bytes in length.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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OpaqueVerifyString
OpaqueVerifyString(p7s As Variant) As String

Verifies an opaque signature and returns the original string. If the signature verification fails, the returned string will be 0 characters in length.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

Returns Nothing on failure

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OpaqueVerifyStringENC
OpaqueVerifyStringENC(p7s As String) As String

Verifies an opaque signature (encoded in string form) and returns the original data string. If the signature verification fails, the returned string will be 0 characters in length.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

Returns Nothing on failure

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Pbkdf1
Pbkdf1(password As String, charset As String, hashAlg As String, salt As String, ByVal iterationCount As Long, ByVal outputKeyBitLen As Long, encoding As String) As String

Implements the PBKDF1 algorithm (Password Based Key Derivation Function #1). The password is converted to the character encoding represented by charset before being passed (internally) to the key derivation function. The hashAlg may be "md5", "sha1", "md2", etc. The salt should be random data at least 8 bytes (64 bits) in length. (The GenRandomBytesENC method is good for generating a random salt value.) The iterationCount should be no less than 1000. The length (in bits) of the derived key output by this method is controlled by outputKeyBitLen. The encoding argument may be "base64", "hex", etc. It controls the encoding of the output, and the expected encoding of the salt. The derived key is returned.

Note: Starting in version 9.5.0.47, if the charset is set to one of the keywords "hex" or "base64", then the password will be considered binary data that is hex or base64 encoded. The bytes will be decoded and used directly as a binary password.

Returns Nothing on failure

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Pbkdf2
Pbkdf2(password As String, charset As String, hashAlg As String, salt As String, ByVal iterationCount As Long, ByVal outputKeyBitLen As Long, encoding As String) As String

Implements the PBKDF2 algorithm (Password Based Key Derivation Function #2). The password is converted to the character encoding represented by charset before being passed (internally) to the key derivation function. The hashAlg may be "sha256", "sha384", "sha512", "md5", "sha1", "md2", or any hash algorithm listed in the HashAlgorithm property. The salt should be random data at least 8 bytes (64 bits) in length. (The GenRandomBytesENC method is good for generating a random salt value.) The iterationCount should be no less than 1000. The length (in bits) of the derived key output by this method is controlled by outputKeyBitLen. The encoding argument may be "base64", "hex", etc. It controls the encoding of the output, and the expected encoding of the salt. The derived key is returned.

Note: The PBKDF2 function (internally) utilizes a PRF that is a pseudorandom function that is a keyed HMAC. The hash algorithm specified by hashAlg determines this PRF. If hashAlg is "SHA256", then HMAC-SHA256 is used for the PRF. Likewise, if the hash function is "SHA1", then HMAC-SHA1 is used. HMAC can be used with any hash algorithm.

Note: Starting in version 9.5.0.47, if the charset is set to one of the keywords "hex" or "base64", then the password will be considered binary data that is hex or base64 encoded. The bytes will be decoded and used directly as a binary password.

Returns Nothing on failure

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RandomizeIV
RandomizeIV()

Sets the initialization vector to a random value.

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RandomizeKey
RandomizeKey()

Sets the secret key to a random value.

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ReadFile
ReadFile(filename As String) As Variant

Convenience method to read an entire file and return as a byte array.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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ReEncode
ReEncode(encodedData As String, fromEncoding As String, toEncoding As String) As String

Provides a means for converting from one encoding to another (such as base64 to hex). This is helpful for programming environments where byte arrays are a real pain-in-the-***. The fromEncoding and toEncoding may be (case-insensitive) "Base64", "modBase64", "Base32", "Base58", "UU", "QP" (for quoted-printable), "URL" (for url-encoding), "Hex", "Q", "B", "url_oauth", "url_rfc1738", "url_rfc2396", and "url_rfc3986".

Returns Nothing on failure

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SetDecryptCert
SetDecryptCert(cert As ChilkatCert) As Long

Sets the digital certificate to be used for decryption when the CryptAlgorithm property is set to "PKI". A private key is required for decryption. Because this method only specifies the certificate, a prerequisite is that the certificate w/ private key must have been pre-installed on the computer. Private keys are stored in the Windows Protected Store (either a user account specific store, or the system-wide store). The Chilkat component will automatically locate and find the certificate's corresponding private key from the protected store when decrypting.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetDecryptCert2
SetDecryptCert2(cert As ChilkatCert, key As PrivateKey) As Long

Sets the digital certificate to be used for decryption when the CryptAlgorithm property is set to "PKI". The private key is supplied in the 2nd argument to this method, so there is no requirement that the certificate be pre-installed on a computer before decrypting (if this method is called).

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetEncodedAad
SetEncodedAad(aadStr As String, encoding As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Sets the authenticated additional data from an encoded string. The authenticated additional data (AAD), if any, is used in authenticated encryption modes such as GCM. The aadStr argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "ascii", or "url".

The Aad is used when the CipherMode is "gcm" (Galois/Counter Mode), which is a mode valid for symmetric ciphers that have a block size of 16 bytes, such as AES or Twofish.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetEncodedAuthTag
SetEncodedAuthTag(authTagStr As String, encoding As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Sets the expected authenticated tag from an encoded string. The authenticated tag is used in authenticated encryption modes such as GCM. An application would set the expected authenticated tag prior to decrypting. The authTagStr argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "ascii", or "url".

The authenticated tag plays a role when the CipherMode is "gcm" (Galois/Counter Mode), which is a mode valid for symmetric block ciphers that have a block size of 16 bytes, such as AES or Twofish.

Note: You can set the authenticated tag to the special value "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF" (16 0xFF bytes) to prevent Chilkat from checking the auth tag after decrypting.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetEncodedIV
SetEncodedIV(ivStr As String, encoding As String)

Sets the initialization vector from an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "ascii", or "url".

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SetEncodedKey
SetEncodedKey(keyStr As String, encoding As String)

Sets the secret key from an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "ascii", or "url".

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SetEncodedSalt
SetEncodedSalt(saltStr As String, encoding As String)

Sets the password-based encryption (PBE) salt bytes from an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "ascii", or "url".

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SetEncryptCert
SetEncryptCert(cert As ChilkatCert) As Long

Tells the encryption library to use a specific digital certificate for public-key encryption. To encrypt with multiple certificates, call AddEncryptCert once for each certificate. (Calling this method is the equivalent of calling ClearEncryptCerts followed by AddEncryptCert.)

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetMacKeyBytes
SetMacKeyBytes(keyBytes As Variant) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Sets the MAC key to be used for one of the Mac methods.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetMacKeyEncoded
SetMacKeyEncoded(key As String, encoding As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Sets the MAC key to be used for one of the Mac methods. The encoding can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", or "url".

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetMacKeyString
SetMacKeyString(key As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.55

Sets the MAC key to be used for one of the Mac methods.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetSecretKeyViaPassword
SetSecretKeyViaPassword(password As String)

Accepts a password string and (internally) generates a binary secret key of the appropriate bit length and sets the SecretKey property. This method should only be used if you are using Chilkat for both encryption and decryption because the password-to-secret-key algorithm would need to be identical for the decryption to match the encryption.

There is no minimum or maximum password length. The password string is transformed to a binary secret key by computing the MD5 digest (of the utf-8 password) to obtain 16 bytes. If the KeyLength is greater than 16 bytes, then the MD5 digest of the Base64 encoding of the utf-8 password is added. A max of 32 bytes of key material is generated, and this is truncated to the actual KeyLength required. The example below shows how to manually duplicate the computation.

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SetSigningCert
SetSigningCert(cert As ChilkatCert) As Long

Specifies a certificate to be used when creating PKCS7 digital signatures. Signing requires both a certificate and private key. In this case, the private key is implicitly specified if the certificate originated from a PFX that contains the corresponding private key, or if on a Windows-based computer where the certificate and corresponding private key are pre-installed. (If a PFX file is used, it is provided via the AddPfxSourceFile or AddPfxSourceData methods.)

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetSigningCert2
SetSigningCert2(cert As ChilkatCert, privateKey As PrivateKey) As Long

Specifies a digital certificate and private key to be used for creating PKCS7 digital signatures.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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SetTsaHttpObj
SetTsaHttpObj(http As ChilkatHttp)

Sets the timestamp authority (TSA) options for cases where a CAdES-T signature is to be created. The http is used to send the requests, and it allows for connection related settings and timeouts to be set. For example, if HTTP or SOCKS proxies are required, these features can be specified on the http.

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SetVerifyCert
SetVerifyCert(cert As ChilkatCert) As Long

Sets the digital certificate to be used in verifying a signature. In virtually all cases, a PKCS7 (CMS) signature already embeds the signing certificate information, and it is not necessary to explicitly call this method to specify the verification certificate. It is only needed in rare cases.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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Shorten
Shorten(inData As Variant, ByVal numBytes As Long) As Variant

Chops N bytes from the end of a byte array. Accepts a Variant, which could be anything (internally) but always returns a Variant containing a byte array.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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SignBdENC
SignBdENC(dataToSign As ChilkatBinData) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Digitally signs the contents of dataToSign and returns the detached digital signature in an encoded string (according to the EncodingMode property setting).

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignBdENCAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
SignBdENCAsync(dataToSign As ChilkatBinData) As ChilkatTask
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Creates an asynchronous task to call the SignBdENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignBytes
SignBytes(data As Variant) As Variant

Digitally signs a byte array and returns the detached digital signature. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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SignBytesAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
SignBytesAsync(data As Variant) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the SignBytes method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignBytesENC
SignBytesENC(data As Variant) As String

Digitally signs a byte array and returns the detached digital signature encoded as a printable string. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method. The EncodingMode property controls the output encoding, which can be "Base64", "QP", or "Hex".

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignBytesENCAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
SignBytesENCAsync(data As Variant) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the SignBytesENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignHashENC
SignHashENC(encodedHash As String, hashAlg As String, hashEncoding As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.90

Digitally signs a hash and returns the PKCS7 detached digital signature as an encoded string. The hash to be signed is passed in encodedHash. The type of hash is passed in hashAlg, which can be "sha1", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512", etc. The hashEncoding specifies the encoding of the hash passed in encodedHash, such as "base64", "hex", etc.

A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method. The Charset property controls the character encoding of the string that is signed. To sign Unicode data (2 bytes per char), set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert the string to a mutlibyte charset such as "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "utf-8", or something else, then set the Charset property to the name of the charset before signing.

The encoding of the output string is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "base64", "hex", etc.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignHashENCAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
SignHashENCAsync(encodedHash As String, hashAlg As String, hashEncoding As String) As ChilkatTask
Introduced in version 9.5.0.90

Creates an asynchronous task to call the SignHashENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignSbENC
SignSbENC(sb As ChilkatStringBuilder) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Digitally signs a the contents of sb and returns the PKCS7 detached digital signature as an encoded string according to the EncodingMode property setting.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignSbENCAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
SignSbENCAsync(sb As ChilkatStringBuilder) As ChilkatTask
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Creates an asynchronous task to call the SignSbENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignString
SignString(str As String) As Variant

Digitally signs a string and returns the detached digital signature. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method. The Charset property controls the character encoding of the string that is signed. (Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings.) To sign Unicode data (2 bytes per char), set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert the string to a mutlibyte charset such as "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "utf-8", or something else, then set the Charset property to the name of the charset before signing. The complete list of charsets is listed in the EncryptString method description.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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SignStringAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
SignStringAsync(str As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the SignString method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignStringENC
SignStringENC(str As String) As String

Digitally signs a string and returns the PKCS7 detached digital signature as an encoded string. A certificate must be set by calling SetSigningCert prior to calling this method. The Charset property controls the character encoding of the string that is signed. (Languages such as VB.NET, C#, and Visual Basic work with Unicode strings.) To sign Unicode data (2 bytes per char), set the Charset property to "Unicode". To implicitly convert the string to a mutlibyte charset such as "iso-8859-1", "Shift_JIS", "utf-8", or something else, then set the Charset property to the name of the charset before signing. The complete list of charsets is listed in the EncryptString method description.

The encoding of the output string is controlled by the EncodingMode property, which can be set to "Base64", "QP", or "Hex".

Returns Nothing on failure

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SignStringENCAsync (1) (2) (AutoIt) (PowerBuilder) (VBScript) (Visual Basic 6.0) (Visual FoxPro)
SignStringENCAsync(str As String) As ChilkatTask

Creates an asynchronous task to call the SignStringENC method with the arguments provided. (Async methods are available starting in Chilkat v9.5.0.52.)

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns Nothing on failure

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StringToBytes
StringToBytes(inStr As String, charset As String) As Variant

Convert a string to a byte array where the characters are encoded according to the charset specified.

Returns a zero-length byte array (as a Variant) on failure.
An empty array will have a UBound of -1 meaning 0 elements.

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Totp
Totp(secret As String, secretEnc As String, t0 As String, tNow As String, ByVal tStep As Long, ByVal numDigits As Long, ByVal truncOffset As Long, hashAlg As String) As String
Introduced in version 9.5.0.77

Implements RFC 6238: TOTP: Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm. The arguments to this method are:

  • secret: The shared secret in an enocded representation such as base64, hex, ascii, etc.
  • secretEnc: The encoding of the shared secret, such as "base64"
  • t0: The Unix time to start counting time steps. It is a number in decimal string form. A Unix time is the number of seconds elapsed since midnight UTC of January 1, 1970. "0" is a typical value used for this argument.
  • tNow: The current Unix time in decimal string form. To use the current system date/time, pass an empty string for this argument.
  • tStep: The time step in seconds. A typical value is 30. Note: Both client and server must pre-agree on the secret, the t0, and the tStep.
  • numDigits: The number of decimal digits to return.
  • truncOffset: Normally set this to -1 for dynamic truncation. Otherwise can be set in the range 0..15.
  • hashAlg: Normally set to "sha1". Can be set to other hash algorithms such as "sha256", "sha512", etc.

Returns Nothing on failure

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TrimEndingWith
TrimEndingWith(inStr As String, ending As String) As String

Trim a string ending with a specific substring until the string no longer ends with that substring.

Returns Nothing on failure

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UseCertVault
UseCertVault(vault As ChilkatXmlCertVault) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.40

Adds an XML certificate vault to the object's internal list of sources to be searched for certificates and private keys when encrypting/decrypting or signing/verifying. Unlike the AddPfxSourceData and AddPfxSourceFile methods, only a single XML certificate vault can be used. If UseCertVault is called multiple times, only the last certificate vault will be used, as each call to UseCertVault will replace the certificate vault provided in previous calls.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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VerifyBdENC
VerifyBdENC(data As ChilkatBinData, encodedSig As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Verifies a digital signature against the original data contained in data. Returns 1 if the signature is verified.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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VerifyBytes
VerifyBytes(data As Variant, sig As Variant) As Long

Verifies a byte array against a digital signature and returns true if the byte array is unaltered.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

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VerifyBytesENC
VerifyBytesENC(data As Variant, encodedSig As String) As Long

Verifies a byte array against a string-encoded digital signature and returns true if the byte array is unaltered. This method can be used to verify a signature produced by SignBytesENC. The EncodingMode property must be set prior to calling to match the encoding of the digital signature string ("Base64", "QP", or "Hex").

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

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VerifyDetachedSignature
VerifyDetachedSignature(inFilename As String, p7sFilename As String) As Long

Verifies a .p7s (PKCS #7 Signature) against the original file (or exact copy of it). If the inFilename has not been modified, the return value is 1, otherwise it is 0. This method is equivalent to VerifyP7S.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

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VerifyP7M
VerifyP7M(p7mPath As String, destPath As String) As Long

Verifies a .p7m file and extracts the original file from the .p7m. Returns 1 if the signature is valid and the contents are unchanged. Otherwise returns 0.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

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VerifyP7S
VerifyP7S(inFilename As String, p7sFilename As String) As Long

Verifies a .p7s (PKCS #7 Signature) against the original file (or exact copy of it). If the inFilename has not been modified, the return value is 1, otherwise it is 0.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

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VerifySbENC
VerifySbENC(sb As ChilkatStringBuilder, encodedSig As String) As Long
Introduced in version 9.5.0.67

Verifies a digital signature against the original data contained in sb. Returns 1 if the signature is verified.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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VerifyString
VerifyString(str As String, sig As Variant) As Long

Verifies a string against a binary digital signature and returns true if the string is unaltered. This method can be used to verify a signature produced by SignString. The Charset property must be set to the charset that was used when creating the signature.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

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VerifyStringENC
VerifyStringENC(str As String, encodedSig As String) As Long

Verifies a string against a string-encoded digital signature and returns true if the string is unaltered. This method can be used to verify a signature produced by SignStringENC. The Charset and EncodingMode properties must be set to the same values that were used when creating the signature.

Note: The signer certificates can be retrieved after any Verify* method call by using the NumSignerCerts property and the GetSignerCert method.

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WriteFile
WriteFile(filename As String, fileData As Variant) As Long

Convenience method to write an entire byte array to a file.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

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XtsSetDataUnitNumber
XtsSetDataUnitNumber(ByVal loUint32 As Long, ByVal hiUint32 As Long)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.91

Sets the XTS-AES mode data unit number. The data unit number is a 64-bit unsigned integer. It is passed in as two 32-bit unsigned integers representing the high and low 32-bits.

Setting the data unit number is one way of setting the tweak value. The tweak value is 16 bytes in length and can alternatively be set by calling XtsSetEncodedTweakValue.

This method sets the tweak value such that the first 8 bytes are composed of the little-endian 64-bit data unit number, followed by 8 zero bytes.

(Unfortunately, Chilkat cannot use 64-bit integers in method arguments because many older programming environments, such as ActiveX, do not support it. Chilkat must present an identical and uniform API across all programming languages.)

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XtsSetEncodedTweakKey
XtsSetEncodedTweakKey(key As String, encoding As String)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.91

Sets the XTS-AES mode tweak key from an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "ascii", or "url". The tweak key should be equal in size to the encryption key. For example, to do 256-bit AES-XTS, the encryption key is 256-bits, and the tweak key is also 256-bits.

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XtsSetEncodedTweakValue
XtsSetEncodedTweakValue(tweak As String, encoding As String)
Introduced in version 9.5.0.91

Sets the XTS-AES mode tweak value from an encoded string. The encoding argument can be set to any of the following strings: "base64", "hex", "quoted-printable", "ascii", or "url".

The tweak value must be 16 bytes in length. An application can set the initial tweak value by calling this method, or by calling XtsSetDataUnitNumber (but not both).

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Events

AbortCheck
AbortCheck(abort As Long)

Provides the opportunity for a method call to be aborted. The AbortCheck event is fired periodically based on the value of the HeartbeatMs property. If HeartbeatMs is 0, then no AbortCheck events will fire. As an example, to fire 5 AbortCheck events per second, set the HeartbeatMs property equal to 200.

VB6 Event callback implementation:

Important: Event callbacks from asynchronous method calls are generally not possible from the ActiveX. See VB6 Async Callbacks

Dim WithEvents myCrypt As ChilkatCrypt2

Private Sub myCrypt_AbortCheck(abort As Long)

	'Insert application code here.

End Sub
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PercentDone
PercentDone(ByVal pctDone As Long, abort As Long)

Provides the percentage completed for any method that involves network communications or time-consuming processing (assuming it is a method where a percentage completion can be measured). This event is only fired when it is possible to know a percentage completion, and when it makes sense to express the operation as a percentage completed. The pctDone argument will have a value from 1 to 100. For operations (Chilkat method calls) that complete very quickly, the number of PercentDone callbacks will vary, but the final callback should have a value of 100. For long running operations, no more than one callback per percentage point will occur (for example: 1, 2, 3, ... 98, 99, 100).

The PercentDone callback counts as an AbortCheck event. For method calls that complete quickly such that PercentDone events fire, it may be that AbortCheck events don't fire because the opportunity to abort is already provided in the PercentDone callback. For time consuming operations, where the amount of time between PercentDone callbacks are long, AbortCheck callbacks may be used to allow for the operation to be aborted in a more responsive manner.

The abort output argument provides a means for aborting the operation. Setting it to 1 will cause the method to abort and return a failed status (or whatever return value indicates failure).

VB6 Event callback implementation:

Important: Event callbacks from asynchronous method calls are generally not possible from the ActiveX. See VB6 Async Callbacks

Dim WithEvents myCrypt As ChilkatCrypt2

Private Sub myCrypt_PercentDone(ByVal pctDone As Long, abort As Long)

	'Insert application code here.

End Sub
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ProgressInfo
ProgressInfo(ByVal name As String, ByVal value As String)

A general name/value event that provides information about what is happening during a method call. To find out what information is available, write code to handle this event and log the name/value pairs. Most are self-explanatory.

VB6 Event callback implementation:

Important: Event callbacks from asynchronous method calls are generally not possible from the ActiveX. See VB6 Async Callbacks

Dim WithEvents myCrypt As ChilkatCrypt2

Private Sub myCrypt_ProgressInfo(ByVal name As String, ByVal value As String)

	'Insert application code here.

End Sub
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