(Perl) Encrypting and Decrypting Content

Demonstrates how to encrypt and decrypt the content of an XML node using 128-bit CBC AES encryption.

The input XML, available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/fox.xml, is this:

<root>
    <fox1>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</fox1>
    <fox2>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
        <child1>ABC</child1>
        <child2>XYZ</child2>
    </fox2>
</root>

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use chilkat();

$xml = chilkat::CkXml->new();

# The sample input XML is available at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/data/fox.xml
$success = $xml->LoadXmlFile("fox.xml");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $xml->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Navigate to the "fox1" node, which is the 1st child:
$success = $xml->FirstChild2();

# Encrypt the content:
$success = $xml->EncryptContent("myPassword");

# Navigate back to the root:
$xml->GetRoot2();

# Examine the new XML document:
print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";

# This is the XML w/ the encrypted content:
# <root>
#     <fox1>1hTtf7XmO+78H+OIr5eWHIuXxP78KPeYrZbsD0HX4negO9ZRqYMBY4s46sPNp+Q+
#     </fox1>
#     <fox2>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
#         <child1>ABC</child1>
#         <child2>XYZ</child2>
#     </fox2>
# </root>

# Now decrypt and show that the original content was restored:
$success = $xml->FirstChild2();
$success = $xml->DecryptContent("myPassword");
$xml->GetRoot2();
print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";

# Now encrypt the content of the "fox2" node.
# First navigate to the "fox2" child.
$success = $xml->FindChild2("fox2");
$success = $xml->EncryptContent("myPassword");
$xml->GetRoot2();
print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";

# This is the XML w/ the "fox2" encrypted content:

# <root>
#     <fox1>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</fox1>
#     <fox2>1hTtf7XmO+78H+OIr5eWHIuXxP78KPeYrZbsD0HX4negO9ZRqYMBY4s46sPNp+Q+
# 
#         <child1>ABC</child1>
#         <child2>XYZ</child2>
#     </fox2>
# </root>

# Notice that the *content* of the node is encrypted.  The child nodes are NOT encrypted.
# This is intentional.  To encrypt the content + the subtrees rooted at a given node, 
# one would call ZipTree to transform the content and subtrees
# to Base64-encoded compressed content, and then call
# EncryptContent to encrypt.

# Finally, decrypt the "fox2" content:
$success = $xml->FindChild2("fox2");
$success = $xml->DecryptContent("myPassword");
$xml->GetRoot2();
print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";