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openssl enc decrypt

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Demonstrates how to decrypt a file that was encrypted using "openssl enc".

This example shows how to decrypt what was created using this openssl command:

openssl enc -e -aes-256-cbc -in hamlet.xml -out hamlet.enc -pass file:./secret.txt

This example shows how to do this:

openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in hamlet.enc -out hamlet_dec.xml -pass file:./secret.txt

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim crypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2

// Use aes-256-cbc
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes"
crypt.CipherMode = "cbc"
crypt.KeyLength = 256

// We'll need to set the hash algorithm to either MD5 or SHA256.
// openssl version 1.0.* or earlier used MD5 by default
// openssl version 1.1.* uses SHA-256 for the password to secret key derivation.

// For example, if openssl 1.1.0 was used, we should do this:
crypt.HashAlgorithm = "sha256"

// This example assumes openssl 1.0.2 was used to encrypt what we're now decrypting:
crypt.HashAlgorithm = "md5"

// The openssl command we are duplicating is:
// 
//    openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in hamlet.enc -out hamlet_dec.xml -pass file:./secret.txt
// 
// The file secret.txt contains the word "secret".  We could write code to load the contents
// of secret.txt, but instead we'll just do this:
crypt.SetEncodedKey "secret","openssl"

// Load the file to be decrypted.
Dim fileData As New Chilkat.BinData
success = fileData.LoadFile("qa_data/openssl_enc/hamlet.enc")

// Decrypt
crypt.VerboseLogging = True
success = crypt.DecryptBd(fileData)
System.DebugLog(crypt.LastErrorText)

// Save the decrypted output.
success = fileData.WriteFile("c:/temp/qa_output/hamlet_dec.xml")

System.DebugLog("success = " + Str(success))