.NET RijndaelManaged to Chilkat Equivalent

Here’s a snippet of C# code to do AES encryption.  What is the equivalent in Chilkat? Dim cspRijndael As New System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManaged csCryptoStream = New CryptoStream(fsOutput, cspRijndael.CreateEncryptor(bytKey, bytIV), CryptoStreamMode.Write) “Rijndael” is the name of the encryption algorithm, and (essentially) “AES” is Rijndael limited to the choices of 128, 192, or 256 bits. Rijndael/AES is a symmetric block encryption algorithm, and the […]

Case-Insensitive JSON

Question: How can JSON be processed in a case-insensitive manner? Rant followed by Answer:  JSON is intended to be case-sensitive.  XML is the same.  Similar to Java, C, C++, etc.  Names are case-sensitive.   Except, of course, there are knuckleheads out there that don’t understand the fundamental specifications and as a result introduce complexity into systems that should never have existed.  […]

XML Signature for Guatemala Fel Factura Electronica

(Chilkat is going to begin posting about the ongoing work with customers involving smart cards and tokens used for signing PDFs and XML invoices, etc.) Chilkat is helping a customer with XML Signatures for Guatemala Fel Factura Electronica, which is to sign XML that begins like the following: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <dte:GTDocumento xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” Version=”0.1″ xsi:schemaLocation=”http://www.sat.gob.gt/dte/fel/0.2.0 GT_Documento-0.2.1.xsd” xmlns:dte=”http://www.sat.gob.gt/dte/fel/0.2.0″> <dte:SAT ClaseDocumento=”dte”> […]

AKD eID Cards of the Republic of Croatia

Chilkat is going to begin posting about the ongoing work with customers involving smart cards and tokens used for signing PDFs and XML invoices, etc. Currently, Chilkat is working with a customer to resolve issues having to do with signing PDFs using AKD eID Card for the Republic of Croatia. This is for PKCS11 (AKD eID Middleware PKCS11). The hope […]