Many thanks to Roger Eller, Jan Schenkel, Bill Vlahos and Paul Hibbert (off 
list) for helping me identify and workaround the issues I encountered.

Paul pointed out three things: I didn't the use "the text of Field ..."; how to 
overcome not being able to copy text from a field in an OS X standalone; and 
the final problem that was related to script local variables.

Using "the text of Field ..." instead of "Field ..." helped to more accurately 
copy and paste data. (I ended up displaying the encrypted data in Hex anyway.) 

I had found that I couldn't copy from a Field in an OS X standalone. Paul 
provide a script with group handlers to get around the problem. I have 
submitted a bug report which has been accepted - 
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11830

At this stage, I was still getting inconsistent results when encrypting data in 
the IDE or a standalone. Then Paul noticed how I was initialising the 
encryption parameters, namely the script local variables tPassword, tSalt, tIV:

        openStack
                put "" into Field "Encrypted"
                put "12345678123456781234567812345678" into tPassword
                put "12345678123456781234567812345678" into tSalt
                put "12345678123456781234567812345678" into tIV
        end openStack

        on encryptMSG
                ...
        end encryptMSG

        on decryptMSG
                ...
        end decryptMSG

He changed this to re-setting the three script local fields each time they were 
used:

        on openStack
                put "" into Field "Encrypted"
        end openStack

        command setPassCodes
                put "12345678123456781234567812345678" into tPassword
                put "12345678123456781234567812345678" into tSalt
                put "12345678123456781234567812345678" into tIV
        end setPassCodes

        on encryptMSG
                setPassCodes
                ...
        end encryptMSG

        on decryptMSG
                setPassCodes
                ...
        end decryptMSG

After making this change, I now get identical results when encrypting data with 
the stack in the IDE or as a standalone.

I have also entered a bug report for this - 
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11832 - I feel there is a bug but not 
in the encrypt/decrypt functions, it's in the handling of script local 
variables.

Once again, thanks for all the help.

Kind regards
Peter
http://LiveCode1001.blogspot.com



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