Problem using the SqlCipher Driver

[doublebyte]

Hi,
I need to encrypt an SQLite database, and I was glad to find out that such a functionality is avaliable through the QSQLCIPHER! :-)

I have built the driver, following these instructions:

http://www.qtcentre.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_QSQLITE_driver_with_AES-256_encryption_support_%28Linux%29

Everything seemed to work fine.

I am using Qt 4.8.6, built from source and the plugins are located in the $QTDIR/plugins/sqldrivers directory.

libqsqlcipher.so is one of the libraries present in this directory, as an output of the previously successful installation.

I wrote an application to test if everything is fine, and the output of QSqlDatabase::drivers() is:

("QSQLCIPHER", "QSQLITE", "QMYSQL3", "QMYSQL", "QODBC3", "QODBC", "QPSQL7", "QPSQL")

Then I wrote another application, to open a previously encrypted database;


QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QSQLCIPHER");


db.setDatabaseName("/home/joana/projects/CAS_upgrade/code/test.db");
if (!db.open())
qFatal("Could not access database.");

QSqlQuery query(db);

query.exec("PRAGMA key = 'testkey';");

if (query.lastError().type() != QSqlError::NoError)
qDebug() << query.lastError().text();
else
qDebug() << "ok!" << endl;


query.exec("select * from pt_shop;");

if (query.lastError().type() != QSqlError::NoError)
qDebug() << query.lastError().text();
else
qDebug() << "ok!" << endl;

There is no error in opening the database using the sqlcipher driver, and in applying the PRAGMA. However, when I try to make a select, I get an error stating that the database is "encrypted or not valid"

I re-wrote the application, and applied these queries



query.exec("ATTACH DATABASE 'encrypted.db' AS encrypted KEY 'testkey';");

if (query.lastError().type() != QSqlError::NoError)
qDebug() << query.lastError().text();
else
qDebug() << "ok!" << endl;

query.exec("SELECT sqlcipher_export('encrypted');");

if (query.lastError().type() != QSqlError::NoError)
qDebug() << query.lastError().text();
else
qDebug() << "ok!" << endl;

for which I got this error:

"no such function: sqlcipher_export Unable to execute statement"

My guess, is that QT is using the normal SQLite driver, rather than the SQLCIPHER one, since this is exactly the same behaviour that I get in the command line, if I use plain sqlite3... :-/

Anybody has any idea, why this is happening?

These are my library versions:

SQLite version 3.7.13 2012-06-11 02:05:22 (from ubuntu package)
SQLCipher version 3.7.17 2013-05-20 00:56:22 (compiled from source)

SQLCipher was compiled both as a shared library, and as a Qt plugin and libsqlcipher.so
is present in /usr/local/lib/ and in $QTDIR_PLUGINS

I really appreciate any suggestions or thoughts about this, because I don't know where else to look!
Thanks in advance,
Joana

[sir.costy]

You can verify whether or not your driver is properly using SQLCipher by querying the current version of SQLCipher at runtime. This can be accomplished by issuing the following command:

PRAGMA cipher_version;

It may be the case that sqlcipher_export('…'); is failing because the Qt driver has not been properly built with SQLCipher and you may just be loading SQLite instead.

[pramodjadhav]

Hi,
I am try to use the sqlcipher library with qt to encrypt the database. I am install the sqlcipher library on my Ubuntu 14.04 . The database encryption & decryption is working properly using command line.
When I use this driver in Qt it gives me following error,

QSqlDatabase: QSQLCIPHER driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers: QSQLITE QMYSQL QMYSQL3 QPSQL QPSQL7

I am new with Qt,Please let me know if any idea related to this.