Re: VFP9 SP1 encoding little endian UTF 16, SHA1, base64

Author: Andrew Stirling

Posted: 2009-05-09 at 11:05:44

Kam

You can get the SHA1 done via Craig Boyd's vfpencryption,.fll

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/2007/08/06/VFPEncryptionUpdate.aspx

Function HASH()

Signature: Hash(cStringtoHash[, nHashType])

Parameters:

cStringtoHash - A plain text string you wish to have hashed

nHashType - The type of hash function to generate. There are currently 7

different hash functions supported

1 = SHA1 (a.k.a SHA160)

2 = SHA256

3 = SHA384

4 = SHA512 *Default

5 = MD5

6 = RIPEMD128

7 = RIPEMD256

SET LIBRARY TO vfpencryption71.fll ADDITIVE

tempText ="Hello World" +CHR(13) + " was Jane's quote"

? (Hash(tempText,1)

? STRCONV(Hash(tempText,1),13)

I also think you need to have/download 'msvcp71.dll'

Andrew Stirling

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KAM.covad wrote:

> You could, but it has too many years since I did any assembler or C. I have 20+ years in VFP so I am going to do everything there if I can. I use the windows API alot so will go that way if possible.

>

> STRCONV will do the base64 (thanks to Tracy). The VFP manual for XML web services talks about UTF-16 (making the double bytes that I need in case the password has characters that are not plain text). I still don't know about the SHA1.

>

>

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> ----- Original Message -----

> From: Stephen Russell

> To: ProFox Email List

> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 12:38 PM

> Subject: Re: VFP9 SP1 encoding little endian UTF 16, SHA1, base64

>

>

> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, KAM.covad

> <a_gmail_noSpam@kenmcginnis.com> wrote:

>> I need to encode a password:

>> 1. convert to upper case (yes, I know how to do this)

>> 2. Unicode it in little endian UTF16

>> 3. SHA1 it

>> 4. base64 encode it

>>

>> Here is an example I was given, but I have never used those methods and I do not believe they are in VFP

>>

>> The encoding process for password is: first convert to uppercase, then Unicode it in littleendian

>> UTF16,

>> then SHA1 it,

>> then base64 encode it.

>> UnicodeEncoding encoding = new UnicodeEncoding();

>> hashBytes = encoding.GetBytes(password.ToUpper().Trim());

>> SHA1 sha1 = new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider();

>> byte[] cryptPassword = sha1.ComputeHash(hashBytes);

>> String pwd= Convert.ToBase64String(cryptPassword);

> -------------------

>

> That is straight up C#.

>

> You could make a dll to do that and register it.

> You pass in string and it returns string back.

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>

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