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4 months 1 day ago #266020 by jamesberry
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I have an email question in a survey that doesn't appear to be decrypting properly in the interface, on export or when I manually attempt to decrypt using the key and nonce from the security.php file.

Any words of wisdom? I'm beyond confused. I've attempted a number of decryption methods and tried to replicate the approach taken in LimeSurvey/application/core/LSSodium.php at 4139afef7446f37e8a3bc2dfd9ce2423f8265d8a · LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey · GitHub  

The key and nonce appear to be correct or my script itself fails - so i think I'm missing something at the end perhaps as readable text does not appear... but the same issue in limesurvey admin interface.

Heres a copy of my external code (its messy sorry as I have lots of different attempts at various methods!):
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Roger Roger Emails</title>
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
</head>
<body>
   <form method="post" action="">
        <label for="table_name">Enter the table name (e.g., lime_survey_x):</label><br>
        <input type="text" id="table_name" name="table_name" required><br><br>
 
        <label for="email_field_name">Enter the email field name:</label><br>
        <input type="text" id="email_field_name" name="email_field_name" required><br><br>
 
        <label for="ids">Enter the IDs to decrypt (comma separated):</label><br>
        <input type="text" id="ids" name="ids" required><br><br>
 
        <label for="encryption_key">Enter the encryption key (hex encoded):</label><br>
        <input type="text" id="encryption_key" name="encryption_key" required><br><br>
 
        <label for="encryption_nonce">Enter the encryption nonce (hex encoded):</label><br>
        <input type="text" id="encryption_nonce" name="encryption_nonce" required><br><br>
 
        <input type="submit" value="Decrypt">
    </form>
 
    <?php
    
    require 'vendor/autoload.php'; // Ensure you have autoloaded the ParagonIE_Sodium_Compat library
    
  if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
        // Get the input values
        $tableName = $_POST['table_name'];
        $emailFieldName = $_POST['email_field_name'];
        $idsInput = $_POST['ids'];
        $ids = array_map('trim', explode(',', $idsInput));
        $encryptionKeyHex = $_POST['encryption_key'];
        $encryptionNonceHex = $_POST['encryption_nonce'];
 
        // Debugging: Display raw input values
        echo 'Raw Encryption Key: ' . htmlspecialchars($encryptionKeyHex) . '<br>';
        echo 'Raw Encryption Nonce: ' . htmlspecialchars($encryptionNonceHex) . '<br>';
 
        // Convert hex encryption key and nonce to binary
        $key = ParagonIE_Sodium_Compat::hex2bin($encryptionKeyHex);
        $nonce = ParagonIE_Sodium_Compat::hex2bin($encryptionNonceHex);
 
        if ($key === false) {
            echo 'Invalid hex encryption key.<br>';
            exit;
        }
        if ($nonce === false) {
            echo 'Invalid hex encryption nonce.<br>';
            exit;
        }
 
        echo 'Hex Key: ' . htmlspecialchars($encryptionKeyHex) . '<br>';
        echo 'Binary Key: ' . bin2hex($key) . '<br>';
        echo 'Hex Nonce: ' . htmlspecialchars($encryptionNonceHex) . '<br>';
        echo 'Binary Nonce: ' . bin2hex($nonce) . '<br>';
 
        // Define the decryption function using ParagonIE_Sodium_Compat
        function decryptData($encryptedData, $key, $nonce) {
            // Debugging: Print the encrypted data
            echo 'Encrypted Data: ' . htmlspecialchars($encryptedData) . '<br>';
 
            // Decode the encrypted data from Base64
            $ciphertext = base64_decode($encryptedData);
 
            if ($ciphertext === false) {
                echo 'Base64 decoding failed.<br>';
                return false;
            }
 
            echo 'Ciphertext (Base64): ' . htmlspecialchars($encryptedData) . '<br>';
            echo 'Ciphertext (Binary): ' . bin2hex($ciphertext) . '<br>';
 
            // Decrypt the data using the shared key and nonce
            try {
                $decryptedData = ParagonIE_Sodium_Compat::crypto_secretbox_open($ciphertext, $nonce, $key);
                if ($decryptedData === false) {
                    echo 'Decryption error.<br>';
                    return false;
                } else {
                    echo 'Decrypted Data (Binary): ' . htmlspecialchars($decryptedData) . '<br>';
 
                    // Attempt to interpret the decrypted data as various formats
                    $decodedData = @base64_decode($decryptedData, true);
                    if ($decodedData !== false) {
                        echo 'Decrypted Data (Base64 Decoded): ' . htmlspecialchars($decodedData) . '<br>';
                    } else {
                        echo 'Decrypted Data (Base64 Decoding Failed)<br>';
                    }
 
                    $jsonDecodedData = @json_decode($decryptedData, true);
                    if (json_last_error() === JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
                        echo 'Decrypted Data (JSON Decoded): ' . htmlspecialchars(print_r($jsonDecodedData, true)) . '<br>';
                    } else {
                        echo 'Decrypted Data (JSON Decoding Failed)<br>';
                    }
 
                    return $decryptedData;
                }
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                echo 'Decryption exception: ' . $e->getMessage() . '<br>';
                return false;
            }
            return false;
        }
                
 
// Database connection parameters
$host = 'localhost';
$db = 'xxx';
$user = 'xxx';
$pass = 'xxx';
 
 
 // Create a new PDO instance
        try {
            $pdo = new PDO("mysql:host=$host;dbname=$db", $user, $pass);
            $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
 
            // Prepare the SQL query
            $placeholders = implode(',', array_fill(0, count($ids), '?'));
            $stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT id, $emailFieldName FROM $tableName WHERE id IN ($placeholders)");
 
            // Execute the query with the provided IDs
            $stmt->execute($ids);
 
            // Loop through the results and decrypt the email field
            while ($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) {
                $encryptedEmails = $row[$emailFieldName];
                echo 'Encrypted Emails: ' . htmlspecialchars($encryptedEmails) . '<br>'; // Debugging line
 
                if (!$encryptedEmails) {
                    echo 'No data found for ID: ' . $row['id'] . '<br>';
                    continue;
                }
 
                // Handle both single and comma-separated encrypted email values
                $encryptedEmailArray = strpos($encryptedEmails, ',') !== false ? explode(',', $encryptedEmails) : [$encryptedEmails];
 
                $decryptedEmails = [];
                foreach ($encryptedEmailArray as $encryptedEmail) {
                    $decryptedEmail = decryptData(trim($encryptedEmail), $key, $nonce);
                    if ($decryptedEmail !== false) {
                        $decryptedEmails[] = $decryptedEmail;
                    }
                }
 
                echo 'ID: ' . $row['id'] . ' - Decrypted Emails: ' . implode(', ', $decryptedEmails) . '<br>';
            }
        } catch (PDOException $e) {
            echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
        }
    }
    ?>
</body>
</html>

 

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4 months 16 hours ago #266050 by Joffm
Replied by Joffm on topic Decryption failing
Hi,
I can't reprodurce this.

Did you update in the meantime without saving the "security.php"?

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