Put RSA key into variable

[ghettocottage]

I have been playing with encryption using RSA keys. I have generated a key-pair; however, I cannot seem to figure out how to put either of the keys into a variable for using to encrypt and decrypt.

both of the keys are rather long strings...do I need to encode them somehow. Wrapping in quotes does not seem to work.

Any clues?

[Peter Wood]

The LiveCode dictionary says that the keys should be in pem format and shows how to create then using openSSL.

I successfully tried this code:

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#!livecode 

if the environment is "server" and the platform is "MacOS" then 
  set the outputLineEndings to "lf"
  set the outputTextEncoding to "utf8"
end if[code]

put the Version & return

put "See if it works" into tSecret
put URL "binfile:private_key.pem" into tPrivateKey
put URL "binfile:public_key.pem" into tPublicKey
encrypt tSecret using rsa with private key tPrivateKey
put it & return
decrypt it using rsa with public key tPublicKey
put it & return
[/code]

I got these results:

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mbp:LiveCodeServer peter$ ./rsa_test.lc
8.0.0-dp-1
wÃ˚_E
     çI;íµdáäÀ»õˆÎ¢Ëª·Jå.10˘p Ã1îèúeX>¶){N3˚4`
See if it works

Hope this helps.

[ghettocottage]

Thanks for replying.

Since I was getting no responses here, I started another post on a similar topic:

http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=23812

and had my question answered.