[sword-devel] using encryption with current osis2mod (r2435

[DM Smith]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Chris Little wrote:

>
>
> Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>> Tim Chase wrote:
>>> Peter picked off my post to the module making forum.  Here are the
>>> steps that I went through for module creation on the windows  
>>> platform
>>> where the osis2mod with cipher key does not produce an encrypted
>>> module.  Running on windows..
>> Thanks for the detailed info.
>> I'm not usually up for Windows-specific troubleshooting/bugfixing  
>> "for
>> fun", I end up doing more than enough of that for work :)
>> However, Chris Little already seems to have zeroed in on the issue,
>> saying (about 24 hours ago):
>>> I suspect this is a problem specific to the Win32 VC++ builds, due  
>>> to
>>> the old US export restriction code. I probably won't have a fix
>>> until tomorrow.
>> so you may see a fix pretty soon, since from that reference point,  
>> it is
>> already "tomorrow" :)
>> Jonathan
>
> Actually, I'm pretty well dumbfounded now.
>
> I can't get the cipher to work anywhere that I've tried. It should  
> be the case that if USBINARY is defined during the library build, it  
> will enable the ciphering/deciphering code. If USBINARY is not  
> defined, trying to do a cipher/decipher will just give you back the  
> same text as you supplied.
>
> I tried adding USBINARY to the VC++ project, but that had no effect.  
> I tried the BCB5 binaries from an older version (these have always  
> had USBINARY defined), and I found that it was also failing to  
> cipher. So I tried compiling svnhead in Ubuntu and found it to  
> produce exactly the same result.
>
> I'm not sure how Jonathan is getting a positive result. I don't  
> believe any significant changes to the cipher stuff were made  
> between 2400 and head of osis2mod. So the different behavior  
> reported between 2400 and 2435 is surprising.
>
> Anyway, that's all to say that I couldn't figure out what is wrong  
> in the 1.5 hours I had to dedicate to the issue today. Additional  
> reports of osis2mod working or not working with ciphering would  
> probably be helpful.

I'll look today to see that it works under Linux.

-- DM