(Android™) SFTP Authenticate Secure

Demonstrates how to do SFTP password authentication with secure strings.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

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

    boolean success;

    //  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=="
    //  }

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/ssh.json");

    CkCrypt2 crypt = new CkCrypt2();

    //  These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
    crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("aes");
    crypt.put_CipherMode("cbc");
    crypt.put_KeyLength(128);
    crypt.SetEncodedKey("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.SetEncodedIV("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.put_EncodingMode("base64");

    CkSecureString ssLogin = new CkSecureString();
    CkSecureString ssPassword = new CkSecureString();

    //  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);

    CkSFtp sftp = new CkSFtp();

    success = sftp.Connect("MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",22);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Authenticate using secure strings
    success = sftp.AuthenticateSecPw(ssLogin,ssPassword);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "SFTP Authentication successful.");

    sftp.Disconnect();

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}