Guide me on this. I am facing problem with decryption of string which is encrypted by iOS "AES/CBC/PKCS7Padding". It throws exception. I want to decrypt string in android, which is encrypted in ios.
In Android i am following this structure:
For Example:
String text = "rzp_test_DezQO1BVMXhkZY";
String key = "5b0904cfada01b8182bcc029b928244d"; // secret key - 128 bit key
String iv_key ="c999cbd1f130db1d";
I want to encrypt and decrypt 'text' string mentioned above. If i do encryption and decryption from Android only. then its working fine. but if i tried to decrypt key which is encrypted in ios then it throws errors.
// Create key and cipher
Cipher dcipher, d1cipher;
IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(iv_key.getBytes());
Key aesKey = new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes(), "AES");
ecipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS7Padding");
dcipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS7Padding");
ecipher.init(ENCRYPT_MODE, aesKey, ivSpec);
dcipher.init(DECRYPT_MODE, aesKey, ivSpec);
Encryption Algo:
public String encrypt(String str) throws Exception {
// Encode the string into bytes using utf-8
byte[] utf8 = str.getBytes("UTF8");
// Encrypt
byte[] enc = ecipher.doFinal(utf8);
// Encode bytes to base64 to get a string
return Base64.encodeToString(enc, Base64.DEFAULT);
}
Decryption Algo:
public String decrypt(String str) throws Exception {
// Decode base64 to get bytes
String decrypted = "";
try {
byte[] dec = Base64.decode(str, Base64.DEFAULT);
byte[] utf8 = dcipher.doFinal(dec);
// Decode using utf-8
decrypted = new String(utf8, "UTF8").trim();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return decrypted;
}
Its working fine in Android for both Encryption and Decryption. Check with this:
String encrypted = encrypt(text);
System.out.println("Encrypted String: " + encrypted);
String decrypted = decrypt(encrypted);
System.out.println("Decrypted String: " + decrypted);
Problem is with decrypting below encrypted string from ios, This Throws error:
String decrypted1 = decrypt("c7076c78fc5d9d92c1d86c1500dcc0366ddf1b6e32df00ceadc911239935460d");
System.out.println("Decrypted String1: " + decrypted1);
Error is:
W/System.err: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: error:1e000065:Cipher functions:OPENSSL_internal:BAD_DECRYPT
W/System.err: at com.android.org.conscrypt.NativeCrypto.EVP_CipherFinal_ex(Native Method)
W/System.err: at com.android.org.conscrypt.OpenSSLCipher$EVP_CIPHER.doFinalInternal(OpenSSLCipher.java:570)
W/System.err: at com.android.org.conscrypt.OpenSSLCipher.engineDoFinal(OpenSSLCipher.java:351)
W/System.err: at javax.crypto.Cipher.doFinal(Cipher.java:1741)
W/System.err: at com.example.aesencryption.Activities.MainActivity1.decrypt(MainActivity1.java:178)
Anyone can please guide me on this??
In IOS:
Following functions are used.
func aesEncrypt() -> String {
let iv: [UInt8] = Array(AES_IV.utf8)
let key: [UInt8] = Array(AES_SECRET.utf8)
do{
let encrypted = try AES (key: key, blockMode: CBC(iv: iv)).encrypt([UInt8](self.data(using: .utf8)!))
return Data(encrypted).base64EncodedString()
}
catch{
print("error on encrypting data ")
return ""
}
}
func aesDecrypt() -> String {
let iv: [UInt8] = Array(AES_IV.utf8)
let key: [UInt8] = Array(AES_SECRET.utf8)
do{
guard let data = Data(base64Encoded: self) else { return "" }
let decrypted = try AES(key: key, blockMode: CBC(iv: iv), padding: .pkcs7).decrypt([UInt8](data))
return String(bytes: decrypted, encoding: .utf8) ?? self
}
catch{
print("error on encrypting data ")
return ""
}
}
I got real string by using following method.
public static String decryptKey(String key_id) {
// Decode base64 to get bytes
String decrypted = "";
try {
Cipher dcipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS7Padding");
dcipher.init(DECRYPT_MODE, aesKey, ivSpec);
byte[] utf8 = dcipher.doFinal(hexToBytes(key_id));
// Decode using utf-8
decrypted = new String(utf8, "UTF8").trim();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return decrypted;
}
public static byte[] hexToBytes(String str) {
if (str == null) {
return null;
} else if (str.length() < 2) {
return null;
} else {
int len = str.length() / 2;
byte[] buffer = new byte[len];
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
buffer[i] = (byte) Integer.parseInt(str.substring(i * 2, i * 2 + 2), 16);
}
return buffer;
}
}
I am new to Android-Java. I have below function in C# for Encryption (Triple DES)
public string Encrypt(string data)
{
try
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data))
{
//byte[] keyArray;
byte[] toEncryptArray = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
//System.Configuration.AppSettingsReader settingsReader = new AppSettingsReader();
byte[] keyArray = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key);
TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider CryptDesECB = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider();
CryptDesECB.Key = keyArray;
CryptDesECB.Mode = CipherMode.ECB;
CryptDesECB.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;
ICryptoTransform cTransform = CryptDesECB.CreateEncryptor();
byte[] resultArray = cTransform.TransformFinalBlock(toEncryptArray, 0, toEncryptArray.Length);
CryptDesECB.Clear();
return Convert.ToBase64String(resultArray, 0, resultArray.Length);
}
return string.Empty;
}
catch (Exception)
{
return string.Empty;
}
}
I have tried below code for having same Encryption function in Android platform:
public static String EncryptText(String message) throws Exception {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
byte[] digestOfPassword = md.digest(secretKey.getBytes("utf-8"));
byte[] keyBytes = Arrays.copyOf(digestOfPassword, 24);
SecretKey key = new SecretKeySpec(keyBytes, "DESede");
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DESede");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
byte[] plainTextBytes = message.getBytes("utf-8");
byte[] buf = cipher.doFinal(plainTextBytes);
byte [] base64Bytes = Base64.encode(buf,Base64.DEFAULT);
String base64EncryptedString = new String(base64Bytes);
return base64EncryptedString;
}
But, the encryption result is different on both platforms? If anyone can help me in pointing the issue in Android function.
Thanks in advance.
I wrote below class for Triple DES ECB mode PKCS5/7 padding mode encryption-decryption and it worked for me:
public class DESedeEncryption {
private static final String UNICODE_FORMAT = "UTF8";
public static final String DESEDE_ENCRYPTION_SCHEME = "DESede";
private KeySpec myKeySpec;
private SecretKeyFactory mySecretKeyFactory;
private Cipher cipher;
byte[] keyAsBytes;
private String myEncryptionKey;
private String myEncryptionScheme;
SecretKey key;
public DESedeEncryption() throws Exception
{
myEncryptionKey = "YOURPRIVATEKEY";
myEncryptionScheme = DESEDE_ENCRYPTION_SCHEME;
keyAsBytes = myEncryptionKey.getBytes(UNICODE_FORMAT);
myKeySpec = new DESedeKeySpec(keyAsBytes);
mySecretKeyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(myEncryptionScheme);
cipher = Cipher.getInstance(myEncryptionScheme);
key = mySecretKeyFactory.generateSecret(myKeySpec);
}
/**
* Method To Encrypt The String
*/
public String encrypt(String unencryptedString) {
String encryptedString = null;
try {
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
byte[] plainText = unencryptedString.getBytes(UNICODE_FORMAT);
byte[] encryptedText = cipher.doFinal(plainText);
encryptedString = Base64.encodeToString(encryptedText, Base64.DEFAULT);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return encryptedString.endsWith("\n") ? encryptedString.replace("\n","") : encryptedString;
}
/**
* Method To Decrypt An Ecrypted String
*/
public String decrypt(String encryptedString) {
String decryptedText=null;
try {
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key);
byte[] encryptedText = Base64.decode(encryptedString, Base64.DEFAULT);
byte[] plainText = cipher.doFinal(encryptedText);
decryptedText= bytes2String(plainText);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return decryptedText;
}
/**
* Returns String From An Array Of Bytes
*/
private static String bytes2String(byte[] bytes) {
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i > bytes.length; i++) {
stringBuffer.append((char) bytes[i]);
}
return stringBuffer.toString();
}
}
First of all, I've already seen
Android 4.2 broke my AES encrypt/decrypt code
and
Encryption error on Android 4.2
and the provided solution:
SecureRandom sr = null;
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= JELLY_BEAN_4_2) {
sr = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG", "Crypto");
} else {
sr = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
}
doesn't work for me, because, when decoding data encrypted in Android<4.2 in Android 4.2, I get:
javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: pad block corrupted
at com.android.org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.symmetric.util.BaseBlockCipher.engineDoFinal(BaseBlockCipher.java:709)
My code is quite simple, and was working until Android 4.2:
public static byte[] encrypt(byte[] data, String seed) throws Exception {
KeyGenerator keygen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
SecureRandom secrand = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
secrand.setSeed(seed.getBytes());
keygen.init(128, secrand);
SecretKey seckey = keygen.generateKey();
byte[] rawKey = seckey.getEncoded();
SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(rawKey, "AES");
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, skeySpec);
return cipher.doFinal(data);
}
public static byte[] decrypt(byte[] data, String seed) throws Exception {
KeyGenerator keygen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
SecureRandom secrand = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
secrand.setSeed(seed.getBytes());
keygen.init(128, secrand);
SecretKey seckey = keygen.generateKey();
byte[] rawKey = seckey.getEncoded();
SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(rawKey, "AES");
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, skeySpec);
return cipher.doFinal(data);
}
My guess is that the default provider wasn't the only thing that changed in Android 4.2, otherwise my code would work with the proposed solution.
My code was based on some post I found here at StackOverflow a long time ago; I see that it differs from the mentioned posts as it just crypts and decrypts byte arrays, whereas the others solutions crypt and decrypt Strings (HEX Strings, I think).
Does it have to do with the seed? Does it have a min/max length, restriction of chars, etc?
Any idea / solution?
EDIT:
After a lot of tests, I see that there are 2 problems:
The provider changed in Android 4.2 (API 17) -> This one is easy to fix, just apply the solution I mentioned at top of the post
BouncyCastle changed from 1.34 to 1.45 in Android 2.2 (API 8)->Android2.3 (API 9), so the decryption problem I previously told is the same as described here: BouncyCastle AES error when upgrading to 1.45
So now the question is: is there any way to recover data crypted in BouncyCastle 1.34 in BouncyCastle 1.45+?
First a disclaimer:
DO NOT ever use SecureRandom to derive a key! This is broken and doesn't make sense!
The following block of code from the question tries to deterministically derive a key from a password, called the "seed" as the password is used to "seed" the random number generator.
KeyGenerator keygen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
SecureRandom secrand = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
secrand.setSeed(seed.getBytes());
keygen.init(128, secrand);
SecretKey seckey = keygen.generateKey();
However, the "SHA1PRNG" algorithm is not well defined and implementations of "SHA1PRNG" may return different or even fully random keys as a result.
If you're reading an AES key from disk, just store the actual key and don't go through this weird dance. You can get a SecretKey for AES usage from the bytes by doing:
SecretKey key = new SecretKeySpec(keyBytes, "AES");
If you're using a password to derive a key, follow Nelenkov's excellent tutorial with the caveat that a good rule of thumb is the salt size should be the same size as the key output.
The iterationCount (work factor) is of course subject to change and should be changed as CPU power progresses - generally it is recommended not to go lower than 40 to 100K as of 2018. Beware that PBKDF2 only adds a constant time delay to guessing passwords; it is not a replacement for really weak passwords.
It looks like this:
/* User types in their password: */
String password = "password";
/* Store these things on disk used to derive key later: */
int iterationCount = 1000;
int saltLength = 32; // bytes; should be the same size as the output (256 / 8 = 32)
int keyLength = 256; // 256-bits for AES-256, 128-bits for AES-128, etc
byte[] salt; // Should be of saltLength
/* When first creating the key, obtain a salt with this: */
SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
byte[] salt = new byte[saltLength];
random.nextBytes(salt);
/* Use this to derive the key from the password: */
KeySpec keySpec = new PBEKeySpec(password.toCharArray(), salt,
iterationCount, keyLength);
SecretKeyFactory keyFactory = SecretKeyFactory
.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1");
byte[] keyBytes = keyFactory.generateSecret(keySpec).getEncoded();
SecretKey key = new SecretKeySpec(keyBytes, "AES");
That's it. Anything else you should not use.
private static final int ITERATION_COUNT = 1000;
private static final int KEY_LENGTH = 256;
private static final String PBKDF2_DERIVATION_ALGORITHM = "PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1";
private static final String CIPHER_ALGORITHM = "AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding";
private static final int PKCS5_SALT_LENGTH = 32;
private static final String DELIMITER = "]";
private static final SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
public static String encrypt(String plaintext, String password) {
byte[] salt = generateSalt();
SecretKey key = deriveKey(password, salt);
try {
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(CIPHER_ALGORITHM);
byte[] iv = generateIv(cipher.getBlockSize());
IvParameterSpec ivParams = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, ivParams);
byte[] cipherText = cipher.doFinal(plaintext.getBytes("UTF-8"));
if(salt != null) {
return String.format("%s%s%s%s%s",
toBase64(salt),
DELIMITER,
toBase64(iv),
DELIMITER,
toBase64(cipherText));
}
return String.format("%s%s%s",
toBase64(iv),
DELIMITER,
toBase64(cipherText));
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
public static String decrypt(String ciphertext, String password) {
String[] fields = ciphertext.split(DELIMITER);
if(fields.length != 3) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid encypted text format");
}
byte[] salt = fromBase64(fields[0]);
byte[] iv = fromBase64(fields[1]);
byte[] cipherBytes = fromBase64(fields[2]);
SecretKey key = deriveKey(password, salt);
try {
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(CIPHER_ALGORITHM);
IvParameterSpec ivParams = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, ivParams);
byte[] plaintext = cipher.doFinal(cipherBytes);
return new String(plaintext, "UTF-8");
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
private static byte[] generateSalt() {
byte[] b = new byte[PKCS5_SALT_LENGTH];
random.nextBytes(b);
return b;
}
private static byte[] generateIv(int length) {
byte[] b = new byte[length];
random.nextBytes(b);
return b;
}
private static SecretKey deriveKey(String password, byte[] salt) {
try {
KeySpec keySpec = new PBEKeySpec(password.toCharArray(), salt, ITERATION_COUNT, KEY_LENGTH);
SecretKeyFactory keyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(PBKDF2_DERIVATION_ALGORITHM);
byte[] keyBytes = keyFactory.generateSecret(keySpec).getEncoded();
return new SecretKeySpec(keyBytes, "AES");
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
private static String toBase64(byte[] bytes) {
return Base64.encodeToString(bytes, Base64.NO_WRAP);
}
private static byte[] fromBase64(String base64) {
return Base64.decode(base64, Base64.NO_WRAP);
}
Source
The problem is that with the new provider, the following snippet of code
KeyGenerator keygen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
SecureRandom secrand = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
secrand.setSeed(seed.getBytes());
keygen.init(128, secrand);
SecretKey seckey = keygen.generateKey();
byte[] rawKey = seckey.getEncoded();
generates a different, genuinely random rawKey every time it's executed. So, you're trying to decrypt with a key different from the one used to encrypt data and you get the exception. You won't be able to recover your key or data when it has been generated this way, and only the seed has been saved.
What fixed it for me (as #Giorgio suggested) was just replacing this:
SecureRandom secrand = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
with this:
SecureRandom secrand = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG", "Crypto");
I am unable to give you answer to your asked question but I'd simply try to work this around >- if you face some problems with bouncycastle across devices/OS version, you should ditch built-in versions completely and instead add bouncycastle as jar to your project, change your import to point to that jar, rebuild and assuming it all works you'd be immune to android built-in version changes from now on.
Because all of this didn't help me to generate an encrypted password which was deterministic on all android devices (>=2.1), I searched for another AES implementation. I found one which works for me on all devices. I'm not a security specialist, I'm not sure if the technique isn't as secure as it could be. I'm only posting the code for people who have run in the same problem that I had face before.
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import android.util.Log;
public class EncodeDecodeAES {
private static final String TAG_DEBUG = "TAG";
private IvParameterSpec ivspec;
private SecretKeySpec keyspec;
private Cipher cipher;
private String iv = "fedcba9876543210";//Dummy iv (CHANGE IT!)
private String SecretKey = "0123456789abcdef";//Dummy secretKey (CHANGE IT!)
public EncodeDecodeAES() {
ivspec = new IvParameterSpec(iv.getBytes());
keyspec = new SecretKeySpec(SecretKey.getBytes(), "AES");
try {
cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/NoPadding");
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
Log.d(TAG_DEBUG, e.getMessage());
}
}
public byte[] encrypt(String text) throws Exception {
if (text == null || text.length() == 0)
throw new Exception("Empty string");
byte[] encrypted = null;
try {
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, keyspec, ivspec);
encrypted = cipher.doFinal(padString(text).getBytes());
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d(TAG_DEBUG, e.getMessage());
throw new Exception("[encrypt] " + e.getMessage());
}
return encrypted;
}
public byte[] decrypt(String code) throws Exception {
if (code == null || code.length() == 0)
throw new Exception("Empty string");
byte[] decrypted = null;
try {
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, keyspec, ivspec);
decrypted = cipher.doFinal(hexToBytes(code));
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d(TAG_DEBUG, e.getMessage());
throw new Exception("[decrypt] " + e.getMessage());
}
return decrypted;
}
public static String bytesToHex(byte[] data) {
if (data == null) {
return null;
}
int len = data.length;
String str = "";
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
if ((data[i] & 0xFF) < 16)
str = str + "0" + java.lang.Integer.toHexString(data[i] & 0xFF);
else
str = str + java.lang.Integer.toHexString(data[i] & 0xFF);
}
return str;
}
public static byte[] hexToBytes(String str) {
if (str == null) {
return null;
} else if (str.length() < 2) {
return null;
} else {
int len = str.length() / 2;
byte[] buffer = new byte[len];
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
buffer[i] = (byte) Integer.parseInt(str.substring(i * 2, i * 2 + 2), 16);
}
return buffer;
}
}
private static String padString(String source) {
char paddingChar = ' ';
int size = 16;
int x = source.length() % size;
int padLength = size - x;
for (int i = 0; i < padLength; i++) {
source += paddingChar;
}
return source;
}
}
You can use it like:
EncodeDecodeAES aes = new EncodeDecodeAES ();
/* Encrypt */
String encrypted = EncodeDecodeAES.bytesToHex(aes.encrypt("Text to Encrypt"));
/* Decrypt */
String decrypted = new String(aes.decrypt(encrypted));
Source: HERE
It's does have to do with the seed indeed and it's also should use multiple of 8 (like 8, 16, 24 or 32), try complete the seed with A's and B's or 1's and 0s (has to be something like this ABAB..., because AAA.. or BBB.. will not work also.) up to reach a multiple of 8 number. There is an other thing if you are reading and encrypting only bytes, (not converting it to Char64 as I did), then you need an appropriate PKCS5 or PKCS7 Padding, however in your case (due only 128bits and it's has been created with older versions of Android) PKCS5 would be enough, though you also should put it in your SecreteKeySpec something like "AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding" or "AES/ECB/PKCS5Padding" rather than just "AES", because Android 4.2 it's using PKCS7Padding as default and if it's only bytes you really need the same algorithm that was the default before. Try get a device with an Android earlier than 4.2 check the Object tree on your "keygen.init(128, secrand);" if I'm not mistaken it's has the label cipher, than use it.
Give it a try.
I wrote the following code in Android (v2.2 API 8), where a plain text is entered and the code encrypts it using a user password and a random salt and then decrypts it. After running the code I only get part of the plain text correct. For example the user enters "Msg 1.5 to encrypt" and the result from the decryption code is "Msg15toencrypg=="
Here is the code:
private EditText plain_msg;
private EditText pwd;
private TextView result;
byte[] iv;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
plain_msg = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.msg2encypt);
pwd = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.password);
result = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.decrypttxt);
}
public void mybuttonHandler(View view){
String S_plain_msg = plain_msg.getText().toString();
String S_pwd = pwd.getText().toString();
setAES(S_plain_msg, S_pwd);
}
private byte[] generateSalt() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException{
SecureRandom random = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
byte[] ransalt = new byte[20];
random.nextBytes(ransalt);
return ransalt;
}
private void setAES(String msg, String pwd){
try {
//Generation of Key
byte[] salt = generateSalt();
SecretKeyFactory factory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBEWITHSHA256AND256BITAES-CBC-BC");
KeySpec spec = new PBEKeySpec(pwd.toCharArray(),salt,1024, 256);
SecretKey tmp = factory.generateSecret(spec);
SecretKey secret = new SecretKeySpec(tmp.getEncoded(), "AES");
//Encryption process
byte[] btxt = Base64.decode(msg, 0);
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secret);
AlgorithmParameters params = cipher.getParameters();
iv = params.getParameterSpec(IvParameterSpec.class).getIV();
byte[] ciphertext = cipher.doFinal(btxt);
String encryptedtext = Base64.encodeToString(ciphertext, 0);
//Decryption process
byte[] bencryptxt = Base64.decode(encryptedtext, 0);
cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, secret, new IvParameterSpec(iv));
ciphertext = cipher.doFinal(bencryptxt);
String cipherS = Base64.encodeToString(ciphertext, 0);
result.setText(cipherS);
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Can someone knows why is this happening or any advice to be able to get the correct decrypted message?
If you take out the encrypt-decrypt, which should be an identity transformation, what remains is:
Base64.encodeToString(Base64.decode(msg))
"Msg 1.5 to encrypt" isn't a Base64-encoded string, there's no need to try to decode it. If you do, as you do, non-Base64 characters get stripped and you get some bytes which, when encoded back, look like the result you get.
I am writing an application which encrypts and decrypts the user notes based on the user set password. i used the following algorithms for encryption/decryption
1. PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES-CBC-BC
2. PBEWithMD5And128BitAES-CBC-OpenSSL
e_Cipher = Cipher.getInstance(PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES-CBC-BC);
d_Cipher = Cipher.getInstance(PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES-CBC-BC);
e_Cipher.init()
d_Cipher.init()
encryption is working well, but when trying to decrypt it gives
Exception - Illegal Block size
after encryption i am converting the cipherText to HEX and storing it in a sqlite database. i am retrieving correct values from the sqlite database during decyption but when calling d_Cipher.dofinal() it throws the Exception.
I thought i missed to specify the padding and tried to check what are the other available cipher algorithms but i was unable to found.
so request you to please give the some knowledge on what are the cipher algorithms and padding that are supported by Android? if the algorithm which i used can be used for padding, how should i specify the padding mechanism?
I am pretty new to Encryption so tried a couple of algorithms which are available in BouncyCastle.java but unsuccessful.
As requested here is the code
public class CryptoHelper {
private static final String TAG = "CryptoHelper";
//private static final String PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES = "PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES-CBC-BC";
//private static final String PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES = "PBEWithMD5And128BitAES-CBC-OpenSSL";
private static final String PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES = "PBEWithMD5And128BitAES-CBC-OpenSSLPBEWITHSHA1AND3-KEYTRIPLEDES-CB";
private static final String randomAlgorithm = "SHA1PRNG";
public static final int SALT_LENGTH = 8;
public static final int SALT_GEN_ITER_COUNT = 20;
private final static String HEX = "0123456789ABCDEF";
private Cipher e_Cipher;
private Cipher d_Cipher;
private SecretKey secretKey;
private byte salt[];
public CryptoHelper(String password) throws InvalidKeyException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, InvalidKeySpecException {
char[] cPassword = password.toCharArray();
PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(cPassword);
PBEParameterSpec pbeParamSpec = new PBEParameterSpec(salt, SALT_GEN_ITER_COUNT);
SecretKeyFactory keyFac = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES);
secretKey = keyFac.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
SecureRandom saltGen = SecureRandom.getInstance(randomAlgorithm);
this.salt = new byte[SALT_LENGTH];
saltGen.nextBytes(this.salt);
e_Cipher = Cipher.getInstance(PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES);
d_Cipher = Cipher.getInstance(PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES);
e_Cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey, pbeParamSpec);
d_Cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, secretKey, pbeParamSpec);
}
public String encrypt(String cleartext) throws IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException {
byte[] encrypted = e_Cipher.doFinal(cleartext.getBytes());
return convertByteArrayToHex(encrypted);
}
public String decrypt(String cipherString) throws IllegalBlockSizeException {
byte[] plainText = decrypt(convertStringtobyte(cipherString));
return(new String(plainText));
}
public byte[] decrypt(byte[] ciphertext) throws IllegalBlockSizeException {
byte[] retVal = {(byte)0x00};
try {
retVal = d_Cipher.doFinal(ciphertext);
} catch (BadPaddingException e) {
Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
}
return retVal;
}
public String convertByteArrayToHex(byte[] buf) {
if (buf == null)
return "";
StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(2*buf.length);
for (int i = 0; i < buf.length; i++) {
appendHex(result, buf[i]);
}
return result.toString();
}
private static void appendHex(StringBuffer sb, byte b) {
sb.append(HEX.charAt((b>>4)&0x0f)).append(HEX.charAt(b&0x0f));
}
private static byte[] convertStringtobyte(String hexString) {
int len = hexString.length()/2;
byte[] result = new byte[len];
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
result[i] = Integer.valueOf(hexString.substring(2*i, 2*i+2), 16).byteValue();
}
return result;
}
public byte[] getSalt() {
return salt;
}
public SecretKey getSecretKey() {
return secretKey;
}
public static SecretKey createSecretKey(char[] password) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException {
PBEKeySpec pbeKeySpec = new PBEKeySpec(password);
SecretKeyFactory keyFac = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance(PBEWithSHA256And256BitAES);
return keyFac.generateSecret(pbeKeySpec);
}
}
I will call mCryptoHelper.decrypt(String str) then this results in Illegal block size exception
My Env: Android 1.6 on Eclipse
#Vamsi is correct, it looks like a new Salt is being generated. This should be generated once, and stored as a known to the program. If the salt changes, then the encrypt/decrypt data checks aren't going to match.
In the code, each time i am generating the "salt",
SecureRandom saltGen = SecureRandom.getInstance(randomAlgorithm);
this.salt = new byte[SALT_LENGTH];
saltGen.nextBytes(this.salt);
hence there is a difference between the encryption and decryption cipher. so it is giving the error Bad Pad block or Padding block corrupted.
If i declare the Salt to some known value, it is working fine.