b64.js file missing

[mankash]

Hello,

While trying to add the search functionality, following your readme (that's also the default readme on the github root page), you instruct us to:

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"add the search package to the application meteor add search"
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On executing the above command, the following error is reported:
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=> Errors while adding packages:

While building package search:
error: File not found: b64.js
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The absence of b64.js can be further verified by:
1> grep-ing through the code
2> searching for b64.js via the github repository search feature in the site.

Please add the missing file.

Best!

[cedricvanrompay]

Same problem here

[cedricvanrompay]

OK, I may have found the beginning of the solution.

There is a file base64.js in the history of the repos:

https://github.com/strikeout/mylar/blob/313b60b27c58a3602c2049e566f955ec20d4ffb0/packages/base64/base64.js

I downloaded it to packages/search and renamed it b64.js,

Then meteor add search works.

However I cannot manage to search, when I click the "search in all rooms" button
my javascript console prints:

Error: principal does not exist in db

I don't know if this comes from the same issue or has another cause.

[cedricvanrompay]

I just noticed there is an issue, opened by a dev, titled "Get the search-over-encrypted-documents working, test it" (issue #4).

So it seems search doesn't even work for the dev.

[ladieman217]

@cedricvanrompay same problem ... how to deal with it ? is there a way to make search work?

[cedricvanrompay]

What I did is using the original implementation from MIT:

git clone -b public git://g.csail.mit.edu/mylar

[ladieman217]

@cedricvanrompay I am trying your method, by the way, do you use mylar in your production projects?any advise? thank you very much

[ladieman217]

I found this repo hasn't been updated for almost two years, I am afraid of the compatibility with the latest meteor release.

[cedricvanrompay]

No, I didn't use it in production and I would recommend not to. Yes it is probably not compatible with a lot of things; even with the (old) proper version of Mylar it crashes a lot.

I used mylar to write a Proof-of-Concept implementation showing that the crypto protocol they use for searching on encrypted data does not meet the security level they claim.
Paper to appear in PETS 2017 conference: https://petsymposium.org/2017/paperlist.php
(title "A Leakage-Abuse Attack Against Multi-User Searchable Encryption")

Proof-of-concept will be available here: http://www.eurecom.fr/~vanrompa/iterative-testing/

As a general remark, mylar was not built to be used in production but for research purpose, so using it in production was a bad idea to start with.

[ladieman217]

@cedricvanrompay thank you very much

[ladieman217]

@cedricvanrompay hi, I have been playing with mylar for a few weeks, now I am wondering can we use mylar with any other framework other than meteor? because normal web apps are built with REST api and front end framework such as Angular or React, any advice ? thank you very much..