(Unicode C++) 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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#include <CkJsonObjectW.h>
#include <CkCrypt2W.h>
#include <CkSecureStringW.h>
#include <CkSshTunnelW.h>

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

    bool 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=="
    // }

    CkJsonObjectW json;
    json.LoadFile(L"qa_data/passwords/ssh.json");

    CkCrypt2W crypt;

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

    CkSecureStringW ssLogin;
    CkSecureStringW ssPassword;

    // 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(L"ssh_login"),ssLogin);
    crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.stringOf(L"ssh_password"),ssPassword);

    CkSshTunnelW tunnel;

    success = tunnel.Connect(L"MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",22);
    if (success != true) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",tunnel.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    // Authenticate using secure strings
    success = tunnel.AuthenticateSecPw(ssLogin,ssPassword);
    if (success != true) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",tunnel.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"SSH Tunnel Authentication successful.\n");

    // ...

    tunnel.CloseTunnel(true);
    }