Jonathan, I have a document (at work) that I will mail to you when I get
there. It was written with Delphi in mind, but it has a really good
breakdown of the authentication bits.
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jonathan Stanton wrote:
> I am trying to write the ActiveX component in VB6 (with Microsoft's CAPICOM dll for
>the DES encryption).
> All is well until you get to the bit after sending off the XML for the Authenticate
>Stage.
> I receive back the challenge. What exactly do I now do with this? I have read
>several different versions on the mailing lists.
> Do I encode this against my private key, store the result as the SessionKey, then
>return the MD5 checksum of the challenge
> encrypted with the SessionKey to the server?
> Or like in the Client Protocol Specification (page 126 step 6) :
> The client returns the challenge's MD5 checksum, AGAIN encrypted with the
>reseller's private key and without XML
> It says AGAIN.... but this is the first time it says to encrypt it.
>
> Any help would be welcomed with thanks
>
> Jonathan
>
> P.S. When I get this ActiveX Component to work I will put it up on sourceforge.net
>
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