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

[Ben Morgan]

On 26/08/2009, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:

> It does not work.
>

We found this out a while ago, didn't we?



> The code that has been there forever, no longer works. I checked out
> revision 1929 from June 2006 and with minor changes, compiled it against the
> current SWORD library. It has the same problem.
>
> That code is:
>        SWFilter *cipherFilter = 0;
>
>        if (!cipherKey.empty()){
>                fprintf(stderr, "Adding cipher filter with phrase: %s\n",
> cipherKey.c_str() );
>                cipherFilter = new CipherFilter(cipherKey.c_str());
>                module->AddRawFilter(cipherFilter);
>        }
>
The rawfilters are run when text is taken out, not put in. So
the cipherfilter will never be run.


> This is the same that is used in mod2zmod and tei2mod. Interestingly,
> cipherraw works entirely differently.
>
>
 I don't have a good environment to debug it and would appreciate someone to
> look at it. The basic idea is that the cipher is used on the raw text of a
> verse to create a jumbled string of the same length.
>

If no one else does, I can probably look at this in a few hours...

Then there is the question of why Jonathan has it working... Are you sure
cipherraw hasn't been near the module? Unmodified code from SVN?
God Bless,
Ben
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