Something is funky with the following AES class I've written to do encryption and decryption. When I copy of the AES object and I choose to encrypt plain text, and then I immediately attempt to decrypt the text I just encrypted, it doesn't decrypt it fully (and does it differently every time).
e.g. I'm initializing it with a simple JSP like this:
<%@page import="com.myclass.util.AES"%>
<%
String hexMessage = "0xe800a86d90d2074fbf339aa70b6d0f62f047db15ef04c86b488a1dda3c6c4f2f2bbb444a8c709bbb4c29c7ff1f1e";
String keyText = "12345678abcdefgh";//*/
AES e = new AES();
//e.setKey(keyText);
String plaintext = "This should decode & encode!";
String ciphertext = e.encrypt(plaintext);
out.println(ciphertext);
out.println("<BR>");
out.println(e.decrypt(ciphertext));
%>
The output varies on each page load: One time:
0x663D64E6A0AE455AB3D25D5AF2F77C72202627EBA068E6DEBE5F22C31
This should decoÁdìmèåV4ÉkÓ
Another:
0x5F5CF31961505F01EA9D5B7D7BFC656BD3117725D2EA041183F48
This s2??XêêÈ&ÀܧF?ÒDÒ?
etc:
0xC7178A34C59F74E5D68F7CE5ED655B670A0B4E715101B4DDC2122460E8
Tà@¼R×ËÖ?_U?xÎÚ?Ba?b4r!©F
The class I created is below:
package com.myclass.util;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.NoSuchProviderException;
import java.security.Security;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.crypto.*;
import javax.crypto.spec.*;
public class AES {
private static String provider = "AES/CTR/NoPadding";
private static String providerkey = "AES";
private static int size = 128;
private SecretKeySpec key;
private Cipher cipher;
private byte[] ivBytes = new byte[size/8];
private IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(ivBytes);
public AES() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, NoSuchProviderException{
Security.addProvider(new org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider());
KeyGenerator kgen = KeyGenerator.getInstance(providerkey);
kgen.init(size); // 192 and 256 bits may not be available
SecretKey skey = kgen.generateKey();
byte[] raw = skey.getEncoded();
key = new SecretKeySpec(raw, providerkey);
cipher = Cipher.getInstance(provider);
for(int x = 0; x < (size/8); x++)
ivBytes[x] = 00;
ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(ivBytes);
}
public void setKey(String keyText){
byte[] bText = new byte[size/8];
bText = keyText.getBytes();
key = new SecretKeySpec(bText, providerkey);
}
public void setIV(String ivText){
setIV(ivText.getBytes());
}
public void setIV(byte[] ivByte){
byte[] bText = new byte[size/8];
bText = ivByte;
ivBytes = bText;
ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(ivBytes);
}
public String encrypt(String message) throws InvalidKeyException, IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException{
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, ivSpec);
byte[] encrypted = cipher.doFinal(message.getBytes());
return byteArrayToHexString(encrypted);
}
public String decrypt(String hexCiphertext) throws IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException, InvalidKeyException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, UnsupportedEncodingException{
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, ivSpec);
byte[] dec = hexStringToByteArray(hexCiphertext);
byte[] decrypted = cipher.doFinal(dec);
return new String(decrypted);
}
private static String byteArrayToHexString( byte [] raw ) {
String hex = "0x";
String s = new String(raw);
for(int x = 0; x < s.length(); x++){
char[] t = s.substring(x, x + 1).toCharArray();
hex += Integer.toHexString((int) t[0]).toUpperCase();
}
return hex;
}
private static byte[] hexStringToByteArray(String hex) {
Pattern replace = Pattern.compile("^0x");
String s = replace.matcher(hex).replaceAll("");
byte[] b = new byte[s.length() / 2];
for (int i = 0; i < b.length; i++){
int index = i * 2;
int v = Integer.parseInt(s.substring(index, index + 2), 16);
b[i] = (byte)v;
}
return b;
}
}
Based on the varied results, I'm wondering if something is getting messed up with the IV somehow, but I don't really understand why...
[EDIT] Looks like its not the IV, if I hard code that the decrypting still varies. If I hard code the key it stops varying, but still doesn't decrypt the text properly :-(.
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Adding the final solution I created below, based on owlstead's code and suggestions. It does the following:
1) Has a random key and iv on initialization.
2) Allows you to specify a key or iv as either a regular string, or as a hex encoded string.
3) Automatically truncates or null pads any given key or iv to make it the appropriate length.
NOTE: Item #3 could be viewed as extremely insecure since it allows you to do something stupid. For my purposes I need it, but please use with caution. If you null pad a short string for a key, your content is not going to be very secure.
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package com.myclass.util;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.NoSuchProviderException;
import java.security.spec.InvalidParameterSpecException;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.crypto.BadPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException;
import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
public class AES {
private static Charset PLAIN_TEXT_ENCODING = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
private static String CIPHER_TRANSFORMATION = "AES/CTR/NoPadding";
private static String KEY_TYPE = "AES";
private static int KEY_SIZE_BITS = 128;
private SecretKey key;
private Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(CIPHER_TRANSFORMATION);
private byte[] ivBytes = new byte[KEY_SIZE_BITS/8];
public AES() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, NoSuchProviderException, InvalidParameterSpecException, InvalidKeyException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException{
KeyGenerator kgen = KeyGenerator.getInstance(KEY_TYPE);
kgen.init(KEY_SIZE_BITS);
key = kgen.generateKey();
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
ivBytes = cipher.getParameters().getParameterSpec(IvParameterSpec.class).getIV();
}
public String getIVAsHex(){
return byteArrayToHexString(ivBytes);
}
public String getKeyAsHex(){
return byteArrayToHexString(key.getEncoded());
}
public void setStringToKey(String keyText){
setKey(keyText.getBytes());
}
public void setHexToKey(String hexKey){
setKey(hexStringToByteArray(hexKey));
}
private void setKey(byte[] bArray){
byte[] bText = new byte[KEY_SIZE_BITS/8];
int end = Math.min(KEY_SIZE_BITS/8, bArray.length);
System.arraycopy(bArray, 0, bText, 0, end);
key = new SecretKeySpec(bText, KEY_TYPE);
}
public void setStringToIV(String ivText){
setIV(ivText.getBytes());
}
public void setHexToIV(String hexIV){
setIV(hexStringToByteArray(hexIV));
}
private void setIV(byte[] bArray){
byte[] bText = new byte[KEY_SIZE_BITS/8];
int end = Math.min(KEY_SIZE_BITS/8, bArray.length);
System.arraycopy(bArray, 0, bText, 0, end);
ivBytes = bText;
}
public String encrypt(String message) throws InvalidKeyException,
IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException,
InvalidAlgorithmParameterException {
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, new IvParameterSpec(ivBytes));
byte[] encrypted = cipher.doFinal(message.getBytes(PLAIN_TEXT_ENCODING));
return byteArrayToHexString(encrypted);
}
public String decrypt(String hexCiphertext)
throws IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException,
InvalidKeyException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException,
UnsupportedEncodingException {
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, new IvParameterSpec(ivBytes));
byte[] dec = hexStringToByteArray(hexCiphertext);
byte[] decrypted = cipher.doFinal(dec);
return new String(decrypted, PLAIN_TEXT_ENCODING);
}
private static String byteArrayToHexString(byte[] raw) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(2 + raw.length * 2);
sb.append("0x");
for (int i = 0; i < raw.length; i++) {
sb.append(String.format("%02X", Integer.valueOf(raw[i] & 0xFF)));
}
return sb.toString();
}
private static byte[] hexStringToByteArray(String hex) {
Pattern replace = Pattern.compile("^0x");
String s = replace.matcher(hex).replaceAll("");
byte[] b = new byte[s.length() / 2];
for (int i = 0; i < b.length; i++){
int index = i * 2;
int v = Integer.parseInt(s.substring(index, index + 2), 16);
b[i] = (byte)v;
}
return b;
}
}
Rewrote, with comments inline. Funny enough, the biggest mistake was generating the hexadecimals, so I rewrote that method. It's not perfect, but I kept to your original source as much as possible.
Your byteArrayToHexString method is broken. Integer.toHexString doesn't add padding zeroes but your code assumes it does. The broken conversion to hex corrupts the encrypted string, and the conversion from hex back to a raw byte string corrupts it further.