(Xojo Plugin) 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
success = 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.)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_login"),ssLogin)
success = crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.StringOf("ssh_password"),ssPassword)

Dim tunnel As New Chilkat.SshTunnel

success = tunnel.Connect("MY-SSH-SERVER-DOMAIN-OR-IP",22)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Authenticate using secure strings
success = tunnel.AuthenticateSecPw(ssLogin,ssPassword)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(tunnel.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("SSH Tunnel Authentication successful.")

// ...

success = tunnel.CloseTunnel(True)