Re: [Bcrypt-users] Bcrypt and PHP

[Brett S. <Bre...@gr...>]

Hi Johnny,

I thought I'd update you with progress in automating Bcrypt for PHP.  

I performed the following:

1.  Installed Cygwin Unix Tools http://www.cygwin.com/ - PHP is running
on a Windows server
2.  On installation, specified 'bcrypt', 'cron' and 'expect' packages to
be included
3.  Created a shell script:

	#!/bin/bash
	# $filename - filename to encrypt
	# $password - password to use

	# .....

	VAR=$(expect -c "
	spawn bcrypt -r $filename
	expect \"Encryption key:\"
	send \"$password\r\"
	expect \"Again:\"
	send \"$password\r\"
	")
	echo "$VAR"
	
	# .....

4.  The PHP application runs independently of the Bcrypt shell script.
PHP creates the file to be encrypted and places it in a secure directory
on the Windows server (which is running PHP and Cygwin).   Cygwin can
access Windows filesystem (eg /cygdrive/c/windows)
5.  A cronjob is setup to run at regular intervals to check to see if a
file exists in the secure directory and then encrypts it using the
Bcrypt shell script (above).

It's not a beautiful solution but it has solved our problem ;)

Regards
Brett.