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This page analyzes how Mozilla signs .xpi add-on packages. We look at the contents of the three files in the META-INF directory.
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This page summarises useful test vectors for the secure hash algorithms SHA-1, SHA-2 and the new SHA-3. Updated for FIPS-202 as released August 2015.
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The Poly1305 authenticator takes a 256-bit one-time key and a message and outputs a 128-bit tag. We show how to use bdcalc to reproduce the IETF example test vector.
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bdcalc is a calculator for the large natural numbers used in cryptography calculations (new version 2.1 released 19 January 2015).
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A series of pages that look at public key cryptography using the properties of discrete logarithms.
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Ever wondered how to compute the constants in the SHA-512 specification FIPS PUB 180-4? OK, probably not. These are the first 64 bits of the fractional parts of the cube roots of the first 80 prime numbers. Includes source code in C.
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Suppose we want to store a credit card number in encrypted form in a database, but we are only allowed to store it in the same format as another credit card number.
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This page demonstrates how to create a digital signature in XML. This is a simple [sic ] example of an enveloping signature where we sign a straightforward text string inside an XML document.
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On this page we look at how to create an enveloped signature of an XML document using XML-DSIG.
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We look at the new Billing Software Certification ( Certificação de Software Facturação ) scheme introduced by the Portugal General Directorate of Taxes ( Direcção Geral dos Impostos ) (DGCI) in June 2010. We point out the problems that are guaranteed to arise in using the OpenSSL software in the manner suggested, as well as apparent errors in the test vectors provided.
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Using XML-Dsig to create and verify electronic invoices for the Servicio de Impuestos Internos (SII) of Chile.
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It is possible to do RSA calculations in VB6/VBA. This code carries out modular exponentiation on arbitrary-large integers.
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MD5 creates a 16-byte (128-bit) one-way hash or message digest of a string of any length. You can use it to check passwords or create a signature for a file. This is an implementation of the MD5 algorithm in VB6/VBA.
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The most common query we get about cryptography concerns padding with a block cipher. If you have to encrypt some data to send to another user and everything else works OK except the last few bytes, your problem is probably one of padding.
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We get many queries from people about how to use keys in cryptography and how to represent them. This page is a simple introduction. If you take away nothing else, remember that.
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We have put together two example projects (one in VB.NET and one in VB6) that demonstrate how to encrypt data of variable length with a secret password - properly! It includes the full source code.
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[2015-10-16] Added sha256sum.exe. Download this set of four freeware command-line utilities that generate or verify SHA-1, SHA-256, MD5 and CRC-32 checksums for a file or list of files.
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The RSA Theory page looks at the mathematics behind the RSA algorithm with mathematical proofs of how it works. Completely re-written November 2011.
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Our RSA Algorithm Page contains notes and advice on the use of the RSA algorithm with simple examples and notes on its use in practice.
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People reading our RSA Algorithm page frequently ask about the extended Euclidean algorithm. We look at how to use it, solve typical exam questions and show how to do the calculations by hand.
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We look at how the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) can be used to speed up the calculations for the RSA algorithm.
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How to do Blowfish in Visual Basic (VB6). This is an original Visual Basic version of Bruce Schneier's Blowfish algorithm.
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MySecret.exe is a freeware utility that enables you to encrypt the contents of the clipboard or disk files. It uses the Blowfish algorithm.
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This page gives example code in Visual Basic (VB6 and VB.NET/VB200x) using CryptoSys PKI to do RSA encryption in the manner suggested by Ferguson and Schneier in their book Practical Cryptography (Wiley, 2003).
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A key derivation function (KDF) is a deterministic algorithm to derive a key of a given size from some secret value.
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Can a file encrypted in VB be decrypted by an application written in Java? Why can't I use your program to decrypt something encrypted by Product X.
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If you are having problems doing cryptography with international character sets, you need to understand just one thing.
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Ciphertext is not text! In cryptography programming you have to be very careful to differentiate between binary data and what we'll refer to here as text data.
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It's unfortunate that the words encryption and encoding tend to get used as synonyms. In cryptography they mean two different things.
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To carry out cryptographic operations in Visual Basic (VB6 and VBA) we should use the unambiguous Byte type instead of the much more convenient String type. This page shows how to handle arrays of the Byte type.
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Doing cryptographic operations in Visual Basic is tricky because VB6 doesn't have unsigned types (except the Byte type). A simple bit shift operation in C like x = 8 is not a simple matter with a Long variable in VB.
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Base64 encoding is used to represent 8-bit binary data in a 7-bit printable form that can be safely transferred through the Internet. Here is how to do it in VB6.
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BigDigits is a library of multiple-precision arithmetic routines written in ANSI C to carry out the usual large natural number calculations required in cryptography calculations.
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We occasionally get asked if we have a program that will carry out the old crypt(3) password encryption function used in Unix systems. Yes we do.
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Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) algorithms CRC-32, CRC-16 and CRC-24 have been written in VB6.
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Our aim here is to make useful software available for developers to use in their applications or research. Unless otherwise noted, all code on this site has been authored by David Ireland of DI Management Services Pty Limited who retains exclusive copyright protection and distribution rights. All efforts have been made to acknowledge the authors of work on which the code is based, where appropriate. Most of the software may be used in your applications without charge. Some software requires a licence for commercial use or distribution. Please refer to the individual copyright notices for the specific details.

The code may only be used as part of an application. You cannot distribute or reproduce any of the files or code found in this site separately by any means without the express written permission of the author.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all the people who have taken the time to write and suggest changes or improvements to the work on this and associated pages. I've tried to mention the significant contributors in the appropriate places. Thanks too, to my wife, Veenu Ireland, for all her support, and to my son, Robert Ireland for all his tennis tricks.

Blowfish: a Visual Basic version

This is an original Visual Basic version of Bruce Schneier's Blowfish algorithm as detailed in "Applied Cryptography", 2nd edition, 1996.

You can download the complete source code and demo projects BlowfishVB_6a.zip (128kB). Please read the terms and conditions for use of this code in BlowfishReadMe.txt. Some test functions are included in basTestBlowfish (included in the main zip file). It has been tested in VB6 and Office VBA. Version 6 released 20 November 2003. Thanks to Robert Garofalo in particular for his advice on speeding it up, and to Doug J Ward and Jim McCusker for their suggestions and advice incorporated here. The Visual Basic version of Blowfish was first published by David Ireland in October 2000.

Michael Coe tells us that the VB6 code can be made to work in VB4 by adding the declaration:

Details of the most recent revisions are explained in Blowfish Version 6 Changes. For more details see the Blowfish VB Demo Page or, for a more complicated example showing CBC mode and raw encryption, see the Blowfish Extended VB Demo Page.

If you want a version in ASP/VBScript, see Blowfish in ASP below.

Please also read the page on Binary and byte operations in VB6/VBA. In particular users with systems set up to use full 32-bit Unicode or CJK oriental characters may need to do a global change of the Asc() and Chr() functions used in the Blowfish and basConvert functions to AscW() and ChrW(). Thanks to David Wolf for this tip.

For more information on dealing with Unicode and ANSI characters sets see Cryptography with International Character Sets.

Q. Why can't I use your program to decrypt something encrypted by Product X? See Cross-Platform Encryption.

Q. Do you have a version in VB.NET? No.

Blowfish in ASP/VBScript

Blowfish in ASP has a conversion of the Blowfish Visual Basic code into VBScript and a sample demo ASP page by Hart Penn.

This is an Apache web site on a Unix server so we can't put up the ASP demo but the page has a screen dump and some hints on how to convert VB to VBScript.

Ironically, all the new work that went into making new basConvert conversion functions using dynamic arrays doesn't convert over to VBScript, so we had to go back to the original basByteUtil functions. Also, be warned, this demo works for the functions it uses - there may well be some unchecked bugs elsewhere.

Blowfish in C

Here is Bruce Schneier's code in C for his Blowfish algorithm. This version is fully ANSI compliant and contains the "missing" P-box values omitted from the book. Try this test code . It contains a test suite by Eric Young and compiles OK with both MSVC++ and with Unix gcc. This code may be freely distributed.

MySecret.exe - a command-line encryption utility

MySecret.exe is a command-line freeware utility that enables you to encrypt the contents of the clipboard or disk files. It is small - 50 kB - and quick. It uses the Blowfish algorithm to create base-64 encoded text that can be easily transmitted over the Internet. For more information, including the download and the technical details of how it works, see the MySecret Blowfish Encryption Utility page.

MySecret was first published 8 February 2002. Version 3 released 12 May 2007. Thanks to Stefan Neumann for help in fixing a bug in an earlier version and for planting the seed to include a proper check when decrypting. There is a Linux version available for ix86 machines and a demonstration VB6 project using CryptoSys API that shows how the algorithm works.

BigDigits multiple-precision arithmetic library in ANSI C

BigDigits is a library of multiple-precision arithmetic routines written in ANSI C to carry out the usual large natural number calculations required in cryptography calculations.

This library includes the classical multiple-precision arithmetic algorithms from Knuth: add, subtract, multiply and divide. It also includes modular multiplication, exponentiation and inversion; number theory functions such as greatest common divisor; and the Rabin-Miller Probabilistic Primality Test procedure from FIPS-186 to show that a large integer is probably prime. The test functions include examples using the RSA algorithm in both multiple-precision and single-precision forms, which are excellent tests for the integrity of most of the functions in the library.

Go to the BigDigits page for more details, including a full listing of all the functions included. Download the source code and read the not-particularly-restrictive copyright notice that applies to this library, especially if you want to use it in your own commercial applications. Please check the Errata for changes.

Crypt3 password encryption function

We occasionally get asked if we have a program that will carry out the old crypt(3) password encryption function used in Unix systems. Yes we do. Download our diCrypt3 program (zipped, 26 kB) which you can use with VB6/VBA or in a C program.

To use in a VB6 or VBA program, include the module basCrypt3.bas in your project.

This should give output like

To use in a C or C++ program, link with diCrypt3.lib .

In all cases, you must copy the core executable diCrypt3.dll to a directory on your library search path. You do not register this file, just copy it. Please read the conditions in the readme file before using.

htpasswd algorithm with SHA-1 and salted SHA-1. If you need to create and verify passwords using the Apache `htpasswd' algorithm with SHA-1 or salted SHA-1, see Using htpasswd passwords with CryptoSys API.

RSA and Diffie-Hellman in Visual Basic

The VB6/VBA code in basModExp.bas contains a procedure to carry out modular exponentiation. (Text format (16 kB) or zipped (6 kB). (VBA users delete the first line with Attribute VB_Name in it.) First published 23 September 2005. Last updated 4 February 2009. Thanks to Philippe Bonnardel for pointing out a problem in the text comparisons in mpFromHex, and thanks to "Mark" for the fix with the "0" in mpModExp.

There are examples of how this can be used to carry out RSA encryption and simple Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The function mpModExp(b, e, m) computes the value of b^e mod m. which is the core computation you need to perform RSA encryption and Diffie Hellman key exchange. You pass the parameters as hex strings which can be as long as you like (depending on how long you want to wait :-). The result is returned in hex format.

A simple calculation: computes the value of 60^3 mod 64206.

Do a mini-RSA encryption of the message 0x35b9a3cb with 32-bit RSA public key (n, e) = (0x5518f65d, 0x11) and private key d = 0x2309cd31:

Before you ask, no, it doesn't help you generate RSA keys, but you can use existing RSA keys to do RSA encryption and signing, provided you know how to express their values in hex format.

This code is slow, especially for keys of practical size. It is provided to demonstrate that this computation can be done using just VB6 code. In practice, use our CryptoSys PKI Toolkit, or use the Big Digits code above. For more information on RSA see our page on the RSA Algorithm.

Base64 encoding in Visual Basic

Base64 encoding is used to represent 8-bit binary data in a 7-bit printable form that can be safely transferred through the Internet. It is called radix64 in PGP documents, printable encoding in Privacy Enhanced Mail (RFC1113/RFC1421) and Base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding in the MIME standard (RFC2045). Read an extract from RFC2045 explaining the mechanics.

Binary data encoded with base64 encoding looks like which represents the 8 bytes

A base64 string consists of the 64 characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and '/' and '+', and can be terminated by up to two '=' characters for padding. Each 4 base64 characters represent 3 bytes. A valid base64 string will always be an exact multiple of 4 characters long.

For our code to do this in Visual Basic (VB6/VBA), download basRadix64.txt and some test functions. These base64 functions are now included in the Blowfish VB demo above and there is an VBScript/ASP version in Blowfish ASP. Many thanks to Chris Thompson for his suggestions and for other advice on improvements. and to Seth Perelman for pointing out a bug in Version 3 of DecodeStr64.

New functions added: The early versions of our base64 functions used Visual Basic 'String' types to store both the final base64 string and the binary data to be encoded. Binary data should not be stored in the VB 'String' type. It will work OK on a system set up for ANSI, but may have problems on one set up oriental CJK or full 32-bit Unicode character sets.

The two new functions that 'do it properly' are:

The EncodeBytes64() function expects its input as an array of 'Bytes' and returns a 'String' of base64 characters. The DecodeBytes64() function expects its input to be a String but returns an array of Bytes. For more details on converting between Visual Basic String and Byte types, see Binary and byte operations in VB6/VBA.

SHA-256 Test Vectors

We wrote our own implementation of the SHA-256 hash algorithm as described in FIPS 180 Secure Hash Standard. This is incorporated into our CryptoSys API and CryptoSys PKI products. Here are some additional test vectors:

These agree with an implementation created by Aaron Gifford who has many more additional vectors of SHA-256 (and SHA-384 and SHA-512) on his site as well as open-source versions of his source code.

We think the test with 2^29 (0x20000000) byte repetitions is important because it makes the bit count "overflow" into the high 32-bit word. That would seem to us to be a critical place where an implementation of any of the Secure Hash Algorithms might fall over.

MD5 Message Digest Algorithm in Visual Basic 6

MD5 creates a 16-byte (128-bit) one-way hash or message digest of a string of any length. You can use it to check passwords or create a signature for a file. It's called a one-way hash because it's computationally infeasible to find the original message from the digest or to create another message that produces the same result. MD5 is no longer recommended for new applications but it is still found in many applications. The original specification by RSA Labs is in RFC1321.txt.

The code in basMD5.bas contains an implementation of the MD5 algorithm in VB6/VBA (zipped 6 kB). (VBA users should delete the first line with Attribute VB_Name in it.) This code is relatively slow. VB6 is not the best language to implement this algorithm - we have to use multiplication and divide operations to do things that can be done with a single machine instruction in other languages. But it works. First published 16 September 2005. Updated 2010-10-20 to fix issue with ">" vs ">=" in uwAdd. Thanks to Loek for pointing this out.

For speed, use the MD5 functions in our CryptoSys API library. which comes with the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, the new SHA-3 algorithms (and their HMAC cousins) and lets you provide the message data input as either a String. Byte array, or as a file.

Cyclic Redundancy Code algorithms CRC-32, CRC-16 and CRC-24 in Visual Basic

Cyclic Redundancy Codes (CRCs) are not strictly cryptographic algorithms, but come in handy to check if someone's been messing with your work or for generating quick hash digests (but not one-way ones). The CRC-32. CRC-16 and CRC-24 algorithms have been written in Visual Basic together with a CRC-32 function for files. You can download them all as a Zipped File (10 kB). Please read the Readme document.

The CRC-32 algorithm is the one specified in ISO 3309 and ITU-T V.42 and used by WinZip. It uses the polynomial 0x04C11DB7. The CRC-16 algorithm uses the polynomial 0x8005. The CRC-24 algorithm is described in RFC 2440 OpenPGP Message Format. Our CRC-24 algorithm is slower than the CRC-32 and CRC-16 versions because it does not use a lookup table, but the code is simpler. The CRC-32 and CRC-16 algorithms in VB6 were first posted on 6 May 2001 and the CRC-24 algorithm on 4 June 2003. Last updated 23 October 2006. Thanks to George Wayne for pointing out that using an Integer counter will lead to overflows on modestly long string inputs.

CRC-32 without using a lookup table

28 October 2006: We needed a version of CRC-32 to use in a C program that didn't use a lookup table. We couldn't find a version on the Net, so here is our version in C. This is the same standard CRC-32 from above which gives CRC("123456789")= 0xCBF43926. There's probably a neat trick to eliminate the use of temp.

Freeware utilities to generate and check SHA-1, SHA-256, MD5 and CRC-32 checksums

[2015-10-16] Added sha256sum.exe. The Windows programs sha1sum.exe. sha256sum.exe. md5sum.exe and crc32sum.exe are freeware command-line programs that generate or verify SHA-1, SHA-256, MD5 and CRC-32 checksums for a file or list of files. All programs recompiled and digitally signed 2015-10-16..

Binary and byte operations in VB6/VBA

Doing cryptographic operations in Classic Visual Basic 6 and VBA is tricky because VB6 doesn't have unsigned types (except the Byte type).

Encryption with International Character Sets

For more information on dealing with Unicode and ANSI characters sets see Encryption with International Character Sets. For information on how to read a file encrypted on, say, a Java platform, see Cross-Platform Encryption. For more general advice on handling ciphertext, see Ciphertext is not text! Storing and representing ciphertext.

Using padding correctly in cryptography

We get even more queries from people who are having problems either understanding or implementing the correct methods of padding with block encryption functions. Our Using Padding in Cryptography article describes in detail the machanics of padding with examples using common block encryption algorithms like DES, Triple DES, Blowfish and AES. It considers where you should use padding and where you don't need to. For advanced users, it also gives examples of ways to use random padding to improve the security of your encrypted communication.

Encrypting variable-length strings with a password: doing it properly

We have put together two example projects (one in VB.NET and one in VB6) that demonstrate how to encrypt data of variable length with a secret password - properly! Our Encrypting variable-length strings with a password article includes an explanation of the methods and the full source code. (Last updated June 2009 ).

RSA Algorithm

Our RSA Algorithm Page contains notes and advice on the use of the RSA algorithm with simple examples and notes on its use in practice. See also our page on RSA Theory (completely re-written November 2011). To help with your RSA calculations, we have some freeware programs to carry out modular arithmetic calculations from the command prompt (last updated 11-11-11 ). We've also written some VB6/VBA code to carry out the basic RSA computation. which you might find helpful.

Commercial Products

We sell commercial cryptography software under the CryptoSys brand name. You can download fully-functional trial versions to try them out at no cost.

CryptoSys API. CryptoSys API is a library of cryptography tools that includes the standard symmetrical block encryption functions (AES, Triple DES, Blowfish, DES), stream ciphers (ARCFOUR, Salsa20 and ChaCha20), hash functions (SHA-1, SHA-2, MD5, RIPE160), HMAC, CMAC and GMAC authentication, AEAD using AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305, and other cryptographic utilities. More details. .

CryptoSys PKI Pro. CryptoSys PKI Pro provides RSA public key encryption and digital signatures, X.509 certificate creation and management, lets you create and read cryptographic message syntax (CMS/PKCS#7) envelopedData and signedData objects that can be used with S/MIME, and compute the cryptographic elements for secure XML documents. More details. .

To understand the differences between the above two CryptoSys products, please compare their features.

Firma SAT. FirmaSAT is a stand-alone product which enables you to analyze and sign CFDi digital tax receipts ( Comprobantes Fiscal Digital ) as specified by the Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT) in Mexico.

Cryptography Links

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