Hi,

I am trying to do the following :

COleException* pEx = new COleException;
DXceedHashing xHashor;

try
{
// Create an instance of the XceedEncryption class
if( !xHashor.CreateDispatch( "Xceed.Hashing", pEx ) )
throw pEx;
DXceedSHAHashingMethod xSHA;
if( !xSHA.CreateDispatch( "Xceed.SHAHashingMethod", pEx ) )
throw pEx;
xSHA.SetHashSize( 256 );
xHashor.SetRefHashingMethod(xSHA.m_lpDispatch);
xHashor.Hash(COleVariant(testSerial), TRUE);

VARIANT var = xSHA.GetHashValue();


Now How do I get the Hash Value out of the Variant and into a CString ?

Thanks

The hash value is a raw byte array, not a string. You cannot directly put it in a CString, you have to encode it first. For that, you can use any binary encoder (for instance, Xceed Binary Encoding Library). In the MFC MemoryEncrypt sample installed with the product, we do something similar with the result of an encryption. If you look at the CMemoryEncryptDlg::OnCmdEncrypt() method, you'll see that we use a local function to encode in Hexadecimal (BinaryToHex) and put the result in a CString.

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André
Software Developer and Tech Support
Xceed Software Inc.

Value from Hash sample in c++ and VB sample (Hasher) is different for same value of text and same options

for a value of "12345123451234512345" in test.txt, hash /m=SHA /s=256 test.txt test1.txt the result in test1.txt is "BD897C7CF527137FE1CC97C1866FA6C6962DCE6D9D74B405D754DC76A66B7FF7"

where as for the same settings and input in Hasher the output is "081115DF5D291465362F17C4B7B182DA6AAA6D8147A0FEC1ACA8435EEC404612"

when using mhash_sha256, hex2bin of the hash is also "081115DF5D291465362F17C4B7B182DA6AAA6D8147A0FEC1ACA8435EEC404612" the same as that for hasher.

So what is the cause for this ? Is there some bug in the BinaryToHex function ?
Please reply ASAP.

Regards
Singh

The two strings are very different. In C++, the hash input is an ASCII string, whereas in VB it is a Unicode string with, in this case, a binary zero adjacent to each character.

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André
Software Developer and Tech Support
Xceed Software Inc.