(VB.NET UWP/WinRT) SSH Tunnel Authenticate Secure

Demonstrates how to do SSH password authentication with secure strings.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

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'  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim success As Boolean

'  Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
'  that contains this:

'  {
'    "ssh_login": "2+qylFfC56Ck7OQQt/U2/w==",
'    "ssh_password": "5neIq9Jmn0E3p71N6Yc8TA=="
'  }

Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/ssh.json")

Dim crypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2

'  These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes"
crypt.CipherMode = "cbc"
crypt.KeyLength = 128
crypt.SetEncodedKey("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex")
crypt.SetEncodedIV("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex")
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64"

Dim ssLogin As New Chilkat.SecureString
Dim ssPassword As New Chilkat.SecureString

'  Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
'  a randomly generated session key.)
crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_login"),ssLogin)
crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_password"),ssPassword)

Dim tunnel As New Chilkat.SshTunnel

success = Await tunnel.ConnectAsync("MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",22)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


'  Authenticate using secure strings
success = Await tunnel.AuthenticateSecPwAsync(ssLogin,ssPassword)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Debug.WriteLine("SSH Tunnel Authentication successful.")


'  ...


tunnel.CloseTunnel(True)