I'm trying to build two functions using PyCrypto that accept two parameters: the message and the key, and then encrypt/decrypt the message.
I found several links on the web to help me out, but each one of them has flaws:
This one at codekoala uses os.urandom, which is discouraged by PyCrypto.
Moreover, the key I give to the function is not guaranteed to have the exact length expected. What can I do to make that happen ?
Also, there are several modes, which one is recommended? I don't know what to use :/
Finally, what exactly is the IV? Can I provide a different IV for encrypting and decrypting, or will this return in a different result?
Edit: Removed the code part since it was not secure.
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Let me address your question about "modes." AES256 is a kind of block cipher. It takes as input a 32-byte key and a 16-byte string, called the block and outputs a block. We use AES in a mode of operation in order to encrypt. The solutions above suggest using CBC, which is one example. Another is called CTR, and it's somewhat easier to use:
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
from Crypto.Util import Counter
from Crypto import Random
# AES supports multiple key sizes: 16 (AES128), 24 (AES192), or 32 (AES256).
key_bytes = 32
# Takes as input a 32-byte key and an arbitrary-length plaintext and returns a
# pair (iv, ciphtertext). "iv" stands for initialization vector.
def encrypt(key, plaintext):
assert len(key) == key_bytes
# Choose a random, 16-byte IV.
iv = Random.new().read(AES.block_size)
# Convert the IV to a Python integer.
iv_int = int(binascii.hexlify(iv), 16)
# Create a new Counter object with IV = iv_int.
ctr = Counter.new(AES.block_size * 8, initial_value=iv_int)
# Create AES-CTR cipher.
aes = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CTR, counter=ctr)
# Encrypt and return IV and ciphertext.
ciphertext = aes.encrypt(plaintext)
return (iv, ciphertext)
# Takes as input a 32-byte key, a 16-byte IV, and a ciphertext, and outputs the
# corresponding plaintext.
def decrypt(key, iv, ciphertext):
assert len(key) == key_bytes
# Initialize counter for decryption. iv should be the same as the output of
# encrypt().
iv_int = int(iv.encode('hex'), 16)
ctr = Counter.new(AES.block_size * 8, initial_value=iv_int)
# Create AES-CTR cipher.
aes = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CTR, counter=ctr)
# Decrypt and return the plaintext.
plaintext = aes.decrypt(ciphertext)
return plaintext
(iv, ciphertext) = encrypt(key, 'hella')
print decrypt(key, iv, ciphertext)
This is often referred to as AES-CTR. I would advise caution in using AES-CBC with PyCrypto. The reason is that it requires you to specify the padding scheme, as exemplified by the other solutions given. In general, if you're not very careful about the padding, there are attacks that completely break encryption!
Now, it's important to note that the key must be a random, 32-byte string; a password does not suffice. Normally, the key is generated like so:
# Nominal way to generate a fresh key. This calls the system's random number
# generator (RNG).
key1 = Random.new().read(key_bytes)
A key may be derived from a password, too:
# It's also possible to derive a key from a password, but it's important that
# the password have high entropy, meaning difficult to predict.
password = "This is a rather weak password."
# For added # security, we add a "salt", which increases the entropy.
#
# In this example, we use the same RNG to produce the salt that we used to
# produce key1.
salt_bytes = 8
salt = Random.new().read(salt_bytes)
# Stands for "Password-based key derivation function 2"
key2 = PBKDF2(password, salt, key_bytes)
Some solutions above suggest using SHA256 for deriving the key, but this is generally considered bad cryptographic practice. Check out wikipedia for more on modes of operation.
from Crypto import Random
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
import base64
BLOCK_SIZE=16
def trans(key):
return md5.new(key).digest()
def encrypt(message, passphrase):
passphrase = trans(passphrase)
IV = Random.new().read(BLOCK_SIZE)
aes = AES.new(passphrase, AES.MODE_CFB, IV)
return base64.b64encode(IV + aes.encrypt(message))
def decrypt(encrypted, passphrase):
passphrase = trans(passphrase)
encrypted = base64.b64decode(encrypted)
IV = encrypted[:BLOCK_SIZE]
aes = AES.new(passphrase, AES.MODE_CFB, IV)
return aes.decrypt(encrypted[BLOCK_SIZE:])
For the benefit of others, here is my decryption implementation which I got to by combining the answers of @Cyril and @Marcus. This assumes that this coming in via HTTP Request with the encryptedText quoted and base64 encoded.
import base64
import urllib2
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
def decrypt(quotedEncodedEncrypted):
key = 'SecretKey'
encodedEncrypted = urllib2.unquote(quotedEncodedEncrypted)
cipher = AES.new(key)
decrypted = cipher.decrypt(base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted))[:16]
for i in range(1, len(base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted))/16):
cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted)[(i-1)*16:i*16])
decrypted += cipher.decrypt(base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted)[i*16:])[:16]
return decrypted.strip()
I have used both Crypto and PyCryptodomex library and it is blazing fast...
import base64
import hashlib
from Cryptodome.Cipher import AES as domeAES
from Cryptodome.Random import get_random_bytes
from Crypto import Random
from Crypto.Cipher import AES as cryptoAES
BLOCK_SIZE = AES.block_size
key = "my_secret_key".encode()
__key__ = hashlib.sha256(key).digest()
print(__key__)
def encrypt(raw):
BS = cryptoAES.block_size
pad = lambda s: s + (BS - len(s) % BS) * chr(BS - len(s) % BS)
raw = base64.b64encode(pad(raw).encode('utf8'))
iv = get_random_bytes(cryptoAES.block_size)
cipher = cryptoAES.new(key= __key__, mode= cryptoAES.MODE_CFB,iv= iv)
a= base64.b64encode(iv + cipher.encrypt(raw))
IV = Random.new().read(BLOCK_SIZE)
aes = domeAES.new(__key__, domeAES.MODE_CFB, IV)
b = base64.b64encode(IV + aes.encrypt(a))
return b
def decrypt(enc):
passphrase = __key__
encrypted = base64.b64decode(enc)
IV = encrypted[:BLOCK_SIZE]
aes = domeAES.new(passphrase, domeAES.MODE_CFB, IV)
enc = aes.decrypt(encrypted[BLOCK_SIZE:])
unpad = lambda s: s[:-ord(s[-1:])]
enc = base64.b64decode(enc)
iv = enc[:cryptoAES.block_size]
cipher = cryptoAES.new(__key__, cryptoAES.MODE_CFB, iv)
b= unpad(base64.b64decode(cipher.decrypt(enc[cryptoAES.block_size:])).decode('utf8'))
return b
encrypted_data =encrypt("Hi Steven!!!!!")
print(encrypted_data)
print("=======")
decrypted_data = decrypt(encrypted_data)
print(decrypted_data)
Another take on this (heavily derived from solutions above) but
tested with python 2.7 and 3.6.5
#!/usr/bin/python2.7
# you'll have to adjust for your setup, e.g., #!/usr/bin/python3
import base64, re
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
from Crypto import Random
from django.conf import settings
class AESCipher:
"""
Usage:
aes = AESCipher( settings.SECRET_KEY[:16], 32)
encryp_msg = aes.encrypt( 'ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp' )
msg = aes.decrypt( encryp_msg )
print("'{}'".format(msg))
"""
def __init__(self, key, blk_sz):
self.key = key
self.blk_sz = blk_sz
def encrypt( self, raw ):
if raw is None or len(raw) == 0:
raise NameError("No value given to encrypt")
raw = raw + '\0' * (self.blk_sz - len(raw) % self.blk_sz)
raw = raw.encode('utf-8')
iv = Random.new().read( AES.block_size )
cipher = AES.new( self.key.encode('utf-8'), AES.MODE_CBC, iv )
return base64.b64encode( iv + cipher.encrypt( raw ) ).decode('utf-8')
def decrypt( self, enc ):
if enc is None or len(enc) == 0:
raise NameError("No value given to decrypt")
enc = base64.b64decode(enc)
iv = enc[:16]
cipher = AES.new(self.key.encode('utf-8'), AES.MODE_CBC, iv )
return re.sub(b'\x00*$', b'', cipher.decrypt( enc[16:])).decode('utf-8')
compatible utf-8 encoding
def _pad(self, s):
s = s.encode()
res = s + (self.bs - len(s) % self.bs) * chr(self.bs - len(s) % self.bs).encode()
return res
You can get a passphrase out of an arbitrary password by using a cryptographic hash function (NOT Python's builtin hash) like SHA-1 or SHA-256. Python includes support for both in its standard library:
import hashlib
hashlib.sha1("this is my awesome password").digest() # => a 20 byte string
hashlib.sha256("another awesome password").digest() # => a 32 byte string
You can truncate a cryptographic hash value just by using [:16] or [:24] and it will retain its security up to the length you specify.
It's little late but i think this will be very helpful. No one mention about use scheme like PKCS#7 padding. You can use it instead the previous functions to pad(when do encryption) and unpad(when do decryption).i will provide the full Source Code below.
import base64
import hashlib
from Crypto import Random
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
import pkcs7
class Encryption:
def __init__(self):
pass
def Encrypt(self, PlainText, SecurePassword):
pw_encode = SecurePassword.encode('utf-8')
text_encode = PlainText.encode('utf-8')
key = hashlib.sha256(pw_encode).digest()
iv = Random.new().read(AES.block_size)
cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
pad_text = pkcs7.encode(text_encode)
msg = iv + cipher.encrypt(pad_text)
EncodeMsg = base64.b64encode(msg)
return EncodeMsg
def Decrypt(self, Encrypted, SecurePassword):
decodbase64 = base64.b64decode(Encrypted.decode("utf-8"))
pw_encode = SecurePassword.decode('utf-8')
iv = decodbase64[:AES.block_size]
key = hashlib.sha256(pw_encode).digest()
cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
msg = cipher.decrypt(decodbase64[AES.block_size:])
pad_text = pkcs7.decode(msg)
decryptedString = pad_text.decode('utf-8')
return decryptedString
import StringIO
import binascii
def decode(text, k=16):
nl = len(text)
val = int(binascii.hexlify(text[-1]), 16)
if val > k:
raise ValueError('Input is not padded or padding is corrupt')
l = nl - val
return text[:l]
def encode(text, k=16):
l = len(text)
output = StringIO.StringIO()
val = k - (l % k)
for _ in xrange(val):
output.write('%02x' % val)
return text + binascii.unhexlify(output.getvalue())
You may need the following two functions: pad- to pad(when doing encryption) and unpad- to unpad (when doing decryption) when the length of input is not a multiple of BLOCK_SIZE.
BS = 16
pad = lambda s: s + (BS - len(s) % BS) * chr(BS - len(s) % BS)
unpad = lambda s : s[:-ord(s[len(s)-1:])]
So you're asking the length of key? You can use the md5sum of the key rather than use it directly.
More, according to my little experience of using PyCrypto, the IV is used to mix up the output of a encryption when input is same, so the IV is chosen as a random string, and use it as part of the encryption output, and then use it to decrypt the message.
And here's my implementation, hope it will be useful for you:
import base64
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
from Crypto import Random
class AESCipher:
def __init__( self, key ):
self.key = key
def encrypt( self, raw ):
raw = pad(raw)
iv = Random.new().read( AES.block_size )
cipher = AES.new( self.key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv )
return base64.b64encode( iv + cipher.encrypt( raw ) )
def decrypt( self, enc ):
enc = base64.b64decode(enc)
iv = enc[:16]
cipher = AES.new(self.key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv )
return unpad(cipher.decrypt( enc[16:] ))
Grateful for the other answers which inspired but didn't work for me.
After spending hours trying to figure out how it works, I came up with the implementation below with the newest PyCryptodomex library (it is another story how I managed to set it up behind proxy, on Windows, in a virtualenv.. phew)
Working on your implementation, remember to write down padding, encoding, encrypting steps (and vice versa). You have to pack and unpack keeping in mind the order.
import base64
import hashlib
from Cryptodome.Cipher import AES
from Cryptodome.Random import get_random_bytes
__key__ = hashlib.sha256(b'16-character key').digest()
def encrypt(raw):
BS = AES.block_size
pad = lambda s: s + (BS - len(s) % BS) * chr(BS - len(s) % BS)
raw = base64.b64encode(pad(raw).encode('utf8'))
iv = get_random_bytes(AES.block_size)
cipher = AES.new(key= __key__, mode= AES.MODE_CFB,iv= iv)
return base64.b64encode(iv + cipher.encrypt(raw))
def decrypt(enc):
unpad = lambda s: s[:-ord(s[-1:])]
enc = base64.b64decode(enc)
iv = enc[:AES.block_size]
cipher = AES.new(__key__, AES.MODE_CFB, iv)
return unpad(base64.b64decode(cipher.decrypt(enc[AES.block_size:])).decode('utf8'))
For someone who would like to use urlsafe_b64encode and urlsafe_b64decode, here are the version that're working for me (after spending some time with the unicode issue)
BS = 16
key = hashlib.md5(settings.SECRET_KEY).hexdigest()[:BS]
pad = lambda s: s + (BS - len(s) % BS) * chr(BS - len(s) % BS)
unpad = lambda s : s[:-ord(s[len(s)-1:])]
class AESCipher:
def __init__(self, key):
self.key = key
def encrypt(self, raw):
raw = pad(raw)
iv = Random.new().read(AES.block_size)
cipher = AES.new(self.key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(iv + cipher.encrypt(raw))
def decrypt(self, enc):
enc = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(enc.encode('utf-8'))
iv = enc[:BS]
cipher = AES.new(self.key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
return unpad(cipher.decrypt(enc[BS:]))
Source: Stackoverflow.com