Hey all, I've been using the CryptoJS library to encode a string to authenticate a user with another program. The way it works is that you send an auth request, and you get two strings. Then you combine and encode those strings with your password to generate your auth key. You get: a salt and a ch…

The problem in the change node iw you were setting msg.password to msg.password (which did not exist) when I beleive you meant to set msg.password to the string password. The result was, via the change node, you did not pass in msg.password so the output from the crypto was different.

put a debug node (set to display the Complete msg object) on the output of the 'Manual Entry' inject and the 'Assign Variables' change nodes and look at the results. Are they the same?

Since I played around with CryptoJS two years ago, I thought I might have a go at your question. The answer has nothing to do with CryptoJS, but is very simple. Please check out your change node "Assign Variables". In there you have set msg.salt = "payload.salt" You set it to the string, not to …

Yes, the results are the same from the debug node but when I run it through the function node the results are still different. And I didn't realize that I set the change node to string, but it didn't fix anything.

When I run it with the correct inputs, the functon node kicks out 1/5/2021, 8:58:33 AM node: Auth Function function : (error) TypeError: Cannot read property 'SHA256' of undefined" so how did you install it to use?

I installed it by adding some lines to my settings.js file. functionGlobalContext: { // os:require('os'), // jfive:require("johnny-five"), // j5board:require("johnny-five").Board({repl:false}) //gcm:require('node-gcm'), fs:require('fs'), cryptojs:require('crypto-…

I got something sort of working by assigning the variables in a function node, but now I'm running into the issue that the output changes when I assign a variable to the password in the function node vs when I just enter it as a string. The password is taken from a JSON config and put into the flow.…

[image] nicnacnic: I installed it by adding some lines to my settings.js file. Is there any reason you didnt just use one of the ready made cryptojs node-red nodes? e.g. node-red-contrib-crypto-js-plus (node) - Node-RED Even more: Library - Node-RED

It was just simpler to install it, and I could do everything in one function node. I tried using the ready-made nodes but I got a complete different result than what I'm expecting. And I think it's more efficient since everything is done at once in one function node.

[image] nicnacnic: It was just simpler to install it How? to add a node module, you need to drop to command line, modify settings.js and you need to have good knowledge of JS. The node-red node is simply installed by one click in the pallete. The major selling point of node-red is a graphic…

Anyway, that's not the point, for me it works just fine and it's better for me. I'm still having issues passing in the password as I mentioned earlier.

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zenofmud 6 January 2021 01:05 16

As I said a long time ago

(hint: the output is NOT the same)

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