Compatibility with OpenSSL

[Mark Percival]

Is Clipperz javascript library compatible with OpenSSL, and could you
give a example of encrypting something with Clipperz and decrypting it
on the command line? Ideally I'd like to be able to write a script
that would take a Clipperz dump and decrypt it with OpenSSL.


Thanks for any help with this,
Mark

[Giulio Cesare Solaroli]

Hello Mark,

I have never tried to decrypt Clipperz data with other tools.

We use standard crypto algorithms, but we have a custom way to encode
the data, so you will probably not able to decrypt them using OpenSSL
out of the box.

The main reason to go with a custom encoding schema was just that we
didn't want to deal with all the complexity of a standardized schema
that needs to take into consideration much more options than we really
needed.

Anyway, while working on the new release of the application, I would
be very pleased to improve the encoding in order to use a common
representation easily processable with other tools.

Any suggestion (and pointers) to a simple/convenient encoding schema
of encrypted data?

Best regards,

Giulio Cesare