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ClickBank Decrypt Instant Notification

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Demonstrates how to decrypt a ClickBank instant notification. See Instant Notification Service for more information and alternative code snippets.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

# secret key from your ClickBank account
secretKey = "MY_SECRET_KEY"

jsonStr = "{\"notification\":\"BASE64_NOTIFICATION\",\"iv\":\"BASE64_IV\"}"

json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
success = json.Load(jsonStr)

# Get the encrypted notification (binary) and IV from the JSON.
bdNotif = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
bdIv = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()

success = bdNotif.AppendEncoded(json.stringOf("notification"),"base64")
success = bdIv.AppendEncoded(json.stringOf("iv"),"base64")

# Get an SHA1 digest (as a hex string) of the secret key.
# A SHA1 digest is 20 bytes.  Therefore the hex string is 40 chars.
# Treat each us-ascii char as a binary byte of the secret key.
# 256-bit AES needs a 256-bit key, which is 32-bytes.  Therefore
# use the 1st 32 us-ascii chars of the hex SHA1 as the AES secret key.

crypt = Chilkat::CkCrypt2.new()
# Because we're using the hex string as the actual AES key, it matters whether the hex is uppercase or lowercase.
# We want lowercase.
crypt.put_EncodingMode("hex_lower")
crypt.put_HashAlgorithm("sha1")
hexSha1 = crypt.hashStringENC(secretKey)
print hexSha1 + "\n";

# Treat the hex string as binary data for the AES key..
bdKey = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
bdKey.AppendString(hexSha1,"us-ascii")
bdKey.RemoveChunk(32,8)

crypt.put_KeyLength(256)
crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("aes")
crypt.put_CipherMode("cbc")

# We can use any encoding because were just getting the binary bytes in an encoding, and then setting from the same encoding.
# We'll just use base64..
crypt.SetEncodedIV(bdIv.getEncoded("base64"),"base64")
crypt.SetEncodedKey(bdKey.getEncoded("base64"),"base64")

crypt.DecryptBd(bdNotif)
print "Decrypted: " + bdNotif.getString("utf-8") + "\n";