Introduction to AES
In this scenario, it is better to use AES-128 than AES-256 if you are to 0-pad a 128-bit key to 256 bits. If you 0-pad, the round key for round 1 is all 0s, and round 3 is effectively worthless as well. So now you are down to 12 effective rounds vs 10 for AES-128. I’ld like to ensure I understand AES key padding correctly Is the initial AES key (expanded to the key schedule) byte padded if less than e.g. Is there a safe way of determining if decryption was successful (meaning: that the correct key has been used )?
The AES encryption is a symmetric cipher and uses the same key for encryption and decryption. The AES algorithm supports 128, 192 and 256 bit encryption, which is determined from the key size : 128 bit encryption when the key is 16 bytes, 192 when the key is 24 bytes and 256 bit when the key is 32 bytes.
The methods provided by the library accept also a string password instead of a key, which is internally converted to a key with a chosen Hash function.
The optional initialization vector (IV) size is 16 bytes, which is the block size of the algorithm. This is summarized in the table below:
Key size | AES encryption |
16 bytes (128 bits) | 128 bit encryption |
24 bytes (192 bits) | 192 bit encryption |
32 bytes (256 bits) | 256 bit encryption |
IV size:16 bytes |
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Padding and Block modes
The Padding and Block mode are important settings for the AES class, that affect the produced encrypted output.
The Padding is used to align the input data to the algorithm BlockSize (16 bytes). The default is PKCS7.
The Block Mode determines what transformation is performed on each processed block. The default one is CBC. It is very important to know what block mode was used for encryption, in order to be able to decrypt it! For example if we know that the encryption has used CTR block mode, we shall set the class to use that mode before decrypting:
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AES encrypting and decrypting a String
The example below shows how to AES encrypt and decrypt a String with a byte array key, with a password and by using or not the optional initialization vector (IV).
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Encrypting and Decrypting a File
Adobe creative suite 5 master collection serial key generator. The file encryption is performed by calling the methods AES.EncryptFile. The decryption is through the DecryptFile methods respectively:
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AES Encrypting and decrypting a Stream
The Stream encryption is performed by reading the data from a Stream opened for reading and writing the encrypted output to a Stream that accepts write operations. After the method execution, the output Stream Position will be at the end of the encrypted data.
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Encrypting and Decrypting a Byte array
The EncryptBytes and DecryptBytes methods accept byte array as input and return the output as byte array. The example below demonstrates the four possibilities for AES key and initialization vector (IV) offered by the library:
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Exception handling
During the AES encryption and decryption operations errors can appear. In order to handle them more gracefully, the library offers a set of typed exceptions that can help us identify the cause of the error.
Below is an example class that demonstrates the various exceptions that can be expected during encryption and decryption. The methods that deal with files and streams of course may also throw System.IO.IOException sub classes:
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Summary
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This chapter illustrated how to perform AES encryption and decryption with the help of NCiphers.Crypto library.