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An error occurred while trying to encrypt or decrypt your input string: The input and output encodings are not same

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Jan 10, 2019 Jan 10, 2019

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I keep getting this error and I am not sure why:

An error occurred while trying to encrypt or decrypt your input string: The input and output encodings are not same

I think it is because the password is being pulled from a database.

Here is my code:

<cfquery datasource="#datasource#" dbname="#dbname#" password="#password#" name="getpass">

SELECT email,pass,username

FROM members

WHERE email = '#email#'

</cfquery>

<cfoutput>

#decrypt("getpass.pass", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==", "AES", "Base64")#

</cfoutput>

Thanks!

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Advocate , Jan 10, 2019 Jan 10, 2019

BACFL  wrote

#decrypt("getpass.pass", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==", "AES", "Base64")#

Oh, I think I see the problem. You're passing the value "getpass.pass" to the function instead of the value of getpass.pass.

Remove the quotes and you should be good to go.

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BACFL  wrote

I keep getting this error and I am not sure why:

An error occurred while trying to encrypt or decrypt your input string: The input and output encodings are not same

I think it is because the password is being pulled from a database.

Why do you think so, when ColdFusion is telling you the input and output encodings are not the same?

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Because if I encrypt and then decrypt on thBe same page I don't get the error.

<cfoutput>

<cfset encryptedpassword = #encrypt("abcde", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==", "AES", "Base64")#

<p>

#encryptedpassword#

RESULT: NFVVQObl4Bmj0K+38T6ffQ==

<cfset password = #decrypt("NFVVQObl4Bmj0K+38T6ffQ==", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==", "AES", "Base64")#

#passsword#

RESULT: abcde

</cfoutput>

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What is the value of the pass field in the database?

If it is not the same as the encryptedpassword variable then you are not storing the value in the database correctly.

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BACFL  wrote

#decrypt("getpass.pass", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==", "AES", "Base64")#

Oh, I think I see the problem. You're passing the value "getpass.pass" to the function instead of the value of getpass.pass.

Remove the quotes and you should be good to go.

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Eddielotter, thanks you were correct.  Removing the quotation marks helped.  That was also causing the variable "pass" to be encrypted and stored in the database instead of the actual password.

Thanks again!

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