Phew I tried many things including new framework crypto methods and some of Christians classes, but I dont get the source of the problem:
I try to save a hash value for the password of a user in a SQLite database.
I do so by reading a value from a textfield and creating a hash memoryblock from it:
dim pwstring as string = TextField2.text.DefineEncoding(encodings.utf8)
dim newhash as MemoryBlock = Crypto.Hash (pwstring, Crypto.Algorithm.SHA512)
and then assign it to the recordset I just opened:
rs.Edit
rs.Field(jobhashfield).Value = newhash
rs.Update
This works nicely. For a returning user, I can read the value:
dim comparehash as MemoryBlock = rs.field(jobhashfield).nativevalueand simply compare both memoryblocks.
This all works great, except it only works as long as I stay on the same desktop platform. Once I compile for Linux and have it access the SQLite database created under OS X, it tells me the password is wrong. If I set a password under Linux, I cannot open it under a Mac. There must be something wrong with the encoding, but I dont get what. Do you have any advice?