Re: bcrypt to read.

[Roger Tawa]

Hi Spencer,

I am not familiar with the bcrypt desktop applications, so its pretty
safe to assume nothing was done to ensure compatibility. Is it a JAva
app?

You can see how secrets encrypts and saves the data here:

http://www.google.com/codesearch#UM8J84NpMF8/trunk/src/net/tawacentral/roger/secrets/FileUtils.java&q=writeSecrets%20package:http://secrets-for-android%5C.googlecode%5C.com&l=365

Thanks,
Roger

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:57, ${spencer} <spen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello - I've tried to decrypt the 'secrets' backup file using the
> bcrypt application that is available on desktop machines.
>
> Is the secrets file not in the same format as files encrypted by
> bcrypt? Or am I being silly?
>
>

[${spencer}]

I used the original C implementation: http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/.

I simply tried to use the program (command line) to decrypt the
secrets file.
It comes back with 'Invalid encryption key for file'

So, first of all apologies for being vague with the first question. I
think my question is the pass-phrase, is it changed in some way before
being used in the bcrypt library.
I suppose the other reason may be a ascii - unicode issue. I presume
that android uses Unicode universally?

On Oct 18, 7:30 pm, Roger Tawa <roge...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Spencer,
>
> I am not familiar with the bcrypt desktop applications, so its pretty
> safe to assume nothing was done to ensure compatibility.  Is it a JAva
> app?
>
> You can see how secrets encrypts and saves the data here:
>

> http://www.google.com/codesearch#UM8J84NpMF8/trunk/src/net/tawacentra...

[${spencer}]

[Roger Tawa █ ♣ █]

Hi Spencer,

I suspect it will not work. Secrets encrypts a Java serialized object stream, so a C program won't be able to read it unless it does some fancy tricks.

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