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#1 2012-11-03 17:23:53

sunaj
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Registered: 2010-06-08
Posts: 9

[Solved] Decrypting AES-256-CBC

Hi,

im trying to modify the android-receiver application i found on pbrisbin's github account so it can decrypt packages sent by the android-notifier app. I've set up the Key-Generation method to be the same as in the android-application yet the decryption does not work properly. In the android application the key is generated from a string entered by the user and then converted to a byte-key using a MD5-Hashing algorithm. My Implementation in C looks like this:

static int key_init(unsigned char *key_data, int key_data_len, EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx) {
    int i, nrounds = 10;
    unsigned char key[32], iv[32];
    i = EVP_BytesToKey(EVP_aes_256_cbc(), EVP_md5(), NULL, key_data, key_data_len, nrounds, key, iv);
    if(i != 32)
        printf("The Decryption key has the wrong size\n");
    EVP_CIPHER_CTX_init(ctx);
    EVP_DecryptInit_ex(ctx, EVP_aes_256_cbc(), NULL, key, iv);

    return 0;
}

static char *decrypt(EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *ciphertext, int *len){
    int p_len = *len, f_len = 0;
    unsigned char *plaintext = malloc(p_len + AES_BLOCK_SIZE);
    
    EVP_DecryptInit_ex(ctx, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
    EVP_DecryptUpdate(ctx, plaintext, &p_len, ciphertext, *len);
    EVP_DecryptFinal_ex(ctx, plaintext+p_len, &f_len);

    *len = p_len + f_len;
    return plaintext;
}

Does anyone have an idea where the error lies? One possibility i could image is that java uses a different version of the PCKS algorithm, resulting in a different key while using the same input data.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Here is the Function from the official Android-Notifier desktop application for comparison.

 public static byte[] passPhraseToKey(String passphrase) {
    byte[] passPhraseBytes;
    try {
      passPhraseBytes = passphrase.getBytes("UTF8");
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
    }

    // Hash it multiple times to keep the paranoid people happy :)
    byte[] keyBytes = passPhraseBytes;
    for (int i = 0; i < NUM_HASHES; i++) {
      keyBytes = doDigest(keyBytes, HASH_ALGORITHM);
    }

    return keyBytes;
  }

 public Encryption(byte[] keyBytes) {
    // Use an MD5 to generate an arbitrary initialization vector
    iv = doDigest(keyBytes, "MD5");
    keySpec = new SecretKeySpec(keyBytes, ENCRYPTION_KEY_TYPE);
  }

Last edited by sunaj (2012-11-05 14:26:30)

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#2 2012-11-05 14:26:00

sunaj
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Registered: 2010-06-08
Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] Decrypting AES-256-CBC

I found the soultion. Apparently i used the wrong bit sizes for the AES_BLOCK_SIZE, padding and the encryption algorithm. (Java is using only 128 bit encryption)

Last edited by sunaj (2012-11-05 14:27:58)

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