SID-00609: TopicCryptPlugin breaks Wysiwyg editing

Status:	Unanswered	TWiki version:	4.3.2	Perl version:	perl 5.10.0 (Cygwin)
Category:	TopicCryptPlugin	Server OS:	Cygwin 1.7	Last update:	16 years ago

If I enable TopicCryptPlugin in Twiki 4.3.2, it breaks the Wysiwyg editing. The Wysiwyg edit page header appears, but everything below the "Help" twisty button is gone- it doesn't appear. You can still do "raw" editing. If I disable TopicCryptPlugin, the Wysiwyg editing works again as usual. I have tried this with and without mod_perl, and I have tried forcing Wysiwyg plugin to load before TopicCryptPlugin (using the configure page). None of these changes makes any difference.

I have run TWiki 4.3.1 on current Cygwin 1.7 on my Windows XP desktop since August 2009. I use it quite heavily. but no one else does. Almost all settings are default, and all binaries are out-of-the-box (Cygwin and Cygwin-ports) except for a few CPAN modules.

A couple years ago I used TopicCryptPlugin very effectively in another organization, and I thought I would try it again here.

I upgraded to TWiki 4.3.2, checked it, and then started installing TopicCryptPlugin. After installing some CPAN modules, and the tcp_patch422.txt patch on the TopicCryptPluginDev page, basic RC4 encryption & decryption works without any errors or warnings. I think there are some problems, especially with the plugin's user authentication, but that is for a different support question.

• server-info.htm: apache2 server info
• perl-info.txt: perl -V
• configure.htm: TWiki configure

-- TonyLeeWallace - 2009-11-04

Discussion and Answer

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-01-03

It seems to be related to the "verbatim" tags. There is a function called "sub extractBlocks" which tries to manipulate those tags if it finds two of them on the same line. I don't know why... I am tempted to simply comment out that part of the function and just note that you shouldn't try to encrypt a text block that has verbatim tags...

-- MattLamoureux - 2010-03-16

Thanks for sharing. I added a note to TopicCryptPluginDev for the maintainer.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-16

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