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Encrypt a file in c# and decrypt in flutter

I have encrypted a file in c# code using RijndaelManaged which is available in System.Security.Cryptography. This file needs to be transferred to a mobile app developed using dart/flutter and I need it to be decrypted using dart code and present it to the user. How can this be done?
Below shown is the code to do the encryption in c#:
string password = keyPhrase; // Your Key Here
UnicodeEncoding UE = new UnicodeEncoding();
byte[] key = UE.GetBytes(password);
string cryptFile = outputFile;
FileStream fsCrypt = new FileStream(cryptFile, FileMode.Create);
RijndaelManaged RMCrypto = new RijndaelManaged();
CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(fsCrypt,
RMCrypto.CreateEncryptor(key, key),
CryptoStreamMode.Write);
FileStream fsIn = new FileStream(inputFile, FileMode.Open);
int data;
while ((data = fsIn.ReadByte()) != -1)
cs.WriteByte((byte)data);
fsIn.Close();
cs.Close();
fsCrypt.Close();
Thank you

I ran into the same problem. After many hours, a solution was found. My code is based on this question1 and question2 Code on C#
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var m_strPassPhrase = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY";
var p_strSaltValue = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
var m_strPasswordIterations = 2;
var m_strInitVector = "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ";
var plainText = "myPassword";
var blockSize = 32;
var saltValueBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(p_strSaltValue);
var password = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(m_strPassPhrase, saltValueBytes, m_strPasswordIterations);
var keyBytes = password.GetBytes(blockSize);
var symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged();
var initVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(m_strInitVector);
var encryptor = symmetricKey.CreateEncryptor(keyBytes, initVectorBytes);
var memoryStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
var cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write);
var plainTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText);
cryptoStream.Write(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length);
cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock();
var cipherTextBytes = memoryStream.ToArray();
memoryStream.Close();
cryptoStream.Close();
var cipherText = Convert.ToBase64String(cipherTextBytes);
Console.WriteLine(cipherText);
Console.WriteLine("\n end");
}
}
}
For flutter you can use pointycastle
Code on Dart(use decryptString and cryptString methods):
import 'dart:convert';
import 'package:pointycastle/block/aes_fast.dart';
import 'dart:typed_data';
import 'package:pointycastle/export.dart';
import 'package:pointycastle/key_derivators/pbkdf2.dart';
import 'package:pointycastle/paddings/pkcs7.dart';
import 'package:pointycastle/pointycastle.dart';
const KEY_SIZE = 32; // 32 byte key for AES-256
const ITERATION_COUNT = 2;
const SALT = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";
const INITIAL_VECTOR = "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ";
const PASS_PHRASE = "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY";
Future<String> cryptString(String text) async {
String encryptedString = "";
final mStrPassPhrase = toUtf8(PASS_PHRASE);
encryptedString =
AesHelper.encrypt(mStrPassPhrase, toUtf8(text), mode: AesHelper.CBC_MODE);
return encryptedString;
}
Future<String> decryptString(String text) async {
String decryptedString = "";
final mStrPassPhrase = toUtf8(PASS_PHRASE);
decryptedString =
AesHelper.decrypt(mStrPassPhrase, toUtf8(text), mode: AesHelper.CBC_MODE);
return decryptedString;
}
///MARK: AesHelper class
class AesHelper {
static const CBC_MODE = 'CBC';
static const CFB_MODE = 'CFB';
static Uint8List deriveKey(dynamic password,
{String salt = '',
int iterationCount = ITERATION_COUNT,
int derivedKeyLength = KEY_SIZE}) {
if (password == null || password.isEmpty) {
throw new ArgumentError('password must not be empty');
}
if (password is String) {
password = createUint8ListFromString(password);
}
Uint8List saltBytes = createUint8ListFromString(salt);
Pbkdf2Parameters params =
new Pbkdf2Parameters(saltBytes, iterationCount, derivedKeyLength);
KeyDerivator keyDerivator =
new PBKDF2KeyDerivator(new HMac(new SHA1Digest(), 64));
keyDerivator.init(params);
return keyDerivator.process(password);
}
static Uint8List pad(Uint8List src, int blockSize) {
var pad = new PKCS7Padding();
pad.init(null);
int padLength = blockSize - (src.length % blockSize);
var out = new Uint8List(src.length + padLength)..setAll(0, src);
pad.addPadding(out, src.length);
return out;
}
static Uint8List unpad(Uint8List src) {
var pad = new PKCS7Padding();
pad.init(null);
int padLength = pad.padCount(src);
int len = src.length - padLength;
return new Uint8List(len)..setRange(0, len, src);
}
static String encrypt(String password, String plaintext,
{String mode = CBC_MODE}) {
String salt = toASCII(SALT);
Uint8List derivedKey = deriveKey(password, salt: salt);
KeyParameter keyParam = new KeyParameter(derivedKey);
BlockCipher aes = new AESFastEngine();
var ivStr = toASCII(INITIAL_VECTOR);
Uint8List iv =
createUint8ListFromString(ivStr);
BlockCipher cipher;
ParametersWithIV params = new ParametersWithIV(keyParam, iv);
switch (mode) {
case CBC_MODE:
cipher = new CBCBlockCipher(aes);
break;
case CFB_MODE:
cipher = new CFBBlockCipher(aes, aes.blockSize);
break;
default:
throw new ArgumentError('incorrect value of the "mode" parameter');
break;
}
cipher.init(true, params);
Uint8List textBytes = createUint8ListFromString(plaintext);
Uint8List paddedText = pad(textBytes, aes.blockSize);
Uint8List cipherBytes = _processBlocks(cipher, paddedText);
return base64.encode(cipherBytes);
}
static String decrypt(String password, String ciphertext,
{String mode = CBC_MODE}) {
String salt = toASCII(SALT);
Uint8List derivedKey = deriveKey(password, salt: salt);
KeyParameter keyParam = new KeyParameter(derivedKey);
BlockCipher aes = new AESFastEngine();
var ivStr = toASCII(INITIAL_VECTOR);
Uint8List iv = createUint8ListFromString(ivStr);
Uint8List cipherBytesFromEncode = base64.decode(ciphertext);
Uint8List cipherIvBytes =
new Uint8List(cipherBytesFromEncode.length + iv.length)
..setAll(0, iv)
..setAll(iv.length, cipherBytesFromEncode);
BlockCipher cipher;
ParametersWithIV params = new ParametersWithIV(keyParam, iv);
switch (mode) {
case CBC_MODE:
cipher = new CBCBlockCipher(aes);
break;
case CFB_MODE:
cipher = new CFBBlockCipher(aes, aes.blockSize);
break;
default:
throw new ArgumentError('incorrect value of the "mode" parameter');
break;
}
cipher.init(false, params);
int cipherLen = cipherIvBytes.length - aes.blockSize;
Uint8List cipherBytes = new Uint8List(cipherLen)
..setRange(0, cipherLen, cipherIvBytes, aes.blockSize);
Uint8List paddedText = _processBlocks(cipher, cipherBytes);
Uint8List textBytes = unpad(paddedText);
return new String.fromCharCodes(textBytes);
}
static Uint8List _processBlocks(BlockCipher cipher, Uint8List inp) {
var out = new Uint8List(inp.lengthInBytes);
for (var offset = 0; offset < inp.lengthInBytes;) {
var len = cipher.processBlock(inp, offset, out, offset);
offset += len;
}
return out;
}
}
///MARK: HELPERS
Uint8List createUint8ListFromString(String s) {
Uint8List ret = Uint8List.fromList(s.codeUnits);
return ret;
}
String toUtf8(value) {
var encoded = utf8.encode(value);
var decoded = utf8.decode(encoded);
return decoded;
}
String toASCII(value) {
var encoded = ascii.encode(value);
var decoded = ascii.decode(encoded);
return decoded;
}

The default mode of Rijndael in .Net is 128 bit block size - compatible with AES. Unless you are using a non-standard block size, prefer .Net's AesManaged.
You haven't specified which padding or mode you are using. The .Net default seems to be CBC, so we'll assume that. It's not clear whether it defaults to a certain padding mode.
(Note that you are using the key both as the IV and the key. The IV should be unique for each invocation of the encryption routine. TLDR - the way you are using AesManaged is insecure - don't use this code in real life.)
Also, you are decoding the key from a string. The key length of AES must be exactly 128 or 256 bits (or one of the more unusual ones). Unless you have chosen your string well, it is unlikely to UTF-8 encode to an exact key length. Also, by using a string you are only using bytes in the key that happen to be characters. Typically, to use a string as a password you would convert it to a key using a key derivation algorithm (e.g. PBKDF2) rather than just UTF-8 encoding it.
With all that said, if your password is exactly 16 (or 32 long) and your file is an exact multiple of 16 bytes (if it is not, you need to decide how to pad it) you should be able to decrypt it like this:
import 'dart:convert';
import 'dart:io';
import 'package:pointycastle/export.dart';
main() async {
var key = utf8.encode('abcdefghijklmnop');
var cipher = CBCBlockCipher(AESFastEngine())
..init(false, ParametersWithIV<KeyParameter>(KeyParameter(key), key));
var cipherText = await File('encryptedFile').readAsBytes();
var plainText = cipher.process(cipherText);
await File('decryptedFile').writeAsBytes(plainText, flush: true);
}

How do you use AES to Encrypt in One Program, Decrypt in Another

I was told not to use RSA to encrypt simple text but to use AES. I found a simple piece of code to implement AES:
public static class Crypto
{
#region Settings
private static int _iterations = 2;
private static int _keySize = 256;
private static string _hash = "SHA1";
private static string _salt = "aselrias38490a32"; // Random
private static string _vector = "8947az34awl34kjq"; // Random
#endregion
public static string Encrypt(string value, string password)
{
return Encrypt<AesManaged>(value, password);
}
public static string Encrypt<T>(string value, string password)
where T : SymmetricAlgorithm, new()
{
byte[] vectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_vector);
byte[] saltBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_salt);
byte[] valueBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value);
byte[] encrypted;
using (T cipher = new T())
{
PasswordDeriveBytes _passwordBytes =
new PasswordDeriveBytes(password, saltBytes, _hash, _iterations);
byte[] keyBytes = _passwordBytes.GetBytes(_keySize/8);
cipher.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
using (ICryptoTransform encryptor = cipher.CreateEncryptor(keyBytes, vectorBytes))
{
using (MemoryStream to = new MemoryStream())
{
using (CryptoStream writer = new CryptoStream(to, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
writer.Write(valueBytes, 0, valueBytes.Length);
writer.FlushFinalBlock();
encrypted = to.ToArray();
}
}
}
cipher.Clear();
}
return Convert.ToBase64String(encrypted);
}
public static string Decrypt(string value, string password)
{
return Decrypt<AesManaged>(value, password);
}
public static string Decrypt<T>(string value, string password) where T : SymmetricAlgorithm, new()
{
byte[] vectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_vector);
byte[] saltBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_salt);
byte[] valueBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(value);
byte[] decrypted;
int decryptedByteCount = 0;
using (T cipher = new T())
{
PasswordDeriveBytes _passwordBytes = new PasswordDeriveBytes(password, saltBytes, _hash, _iterations);
byte[] keyBytes = _passwordBytes.GetBytes(_keySize/8);
cipher.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
try
{
using (ICryptoTransform decryptor = cipher.CreateDecryptor(keyBytes, vectorBytes))
{
using (MemoryStream from = new MemoryStream(valueBytes))
{
using (CryptoStream reader = new CryptoStream(from, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
{
decrypted = new byte[valueBytes.Length];
decryptedByteCount = reader.Read(decrypted, 0, decrypted.Length);
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return String.Empty;
}
cipher.Clear();
}
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decrypted, 0, decryptedByteCount);
}
}
However, this is based on a string coming back and then used to decrypt in the same program. I need to encrypt the following data in a WinForms program and the decrypt in a whole separate Windows Service program:
string fileName = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "alphaService.xml");
XDocument doc = new XDocument();
XElement xml = new XElement("Info",
new XElement("DatabaseServerName", txtServerName.Text),
new XElement("DatabaseUserName", txtDatabaseUserName.Text),
new XElement("DatabasePassword", txtDatabasePassword.Text),
new XElement("ServiceAccount", txtAccount.Text),
new XElement("ServicePassword", txtServicePassword.Text),
new XElement("RegistrationCode", txtRegistrationCode.Text));
doc.Add(xml);
doc.Save(fileName);
// Convert XML doc to byte stream
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(fileName);
// byte[] fileBytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(xmlDoc.OuterXml);
string encrypted = Crypto.Encrypt(xmlDoc.OuterXml, "testpass");
How can I do it? Please show sample code.
EDIT: Kevin, I have implemented your algorithm but the problem is I want to generate the key once and save it for use in the other program to decrypt but I need to pass the byte[] to the encrypt function. So I tried converting using System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(key); and it doesn't do it correctly. I have the wrong number of bytes for byte[] for the key.
string fileName = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "alphaService.xml");
XDocument doc = new XDocument();
XElement xml = new XElement("Info",
new XElement("DatabaseServerName", txtServerName.Text),
new XElement("DatabaseUserName", txtDatabaseUserName.Text),
new XElement("DatabasePassword", txtDatabasePassword.Text),
new XElement("ServiceAccount", txtAccount.Text),
new XElement("ServicePassword", txtServicePassword.Text),
new XElement("RegistrationCode", txtRegistrationCode.Text));
doc.Add(xml);
doc.Save(fileName);
// Read file to a string
string contents = File.ReadAllText(fileName);
string key = String.Empty;
byte[] aesKey;
using (var aes = Aes.Create())
{
// aesKey = aes.Key;
key = Convert.ToBase64String(aes.Key);
}
string sKey = "LvtZELDrB394hbSOi3SurLWAvC8adNpZiJmQDJHdfJU=";
aesKey = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sKey);
string encyptedText = EncryptDecrpt.EncryptStringToBase64String(contents, aesKey);
File.WriteAllText(fileName, encyptedText);
EDIT2: Here's both parts as they stand now. The encrypting side:
private void SaveForm()
{
try
{
string fileName = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, "alphaService.xml");
XDocument doc = new XDocument();
XElement xml = new XElement("Info",
new XElement("DatabaseServerName", txtServerName.Text),
new XElement("DatabaseUserName", txtDatabaseUserName.Text),
new XElement("DatabasePassword", txtDatabasePassword.Text),
new XElement("ServiceAccount", txtAccount.Text),
new XElement("ServicePassword", txtServicePassword.Text),
new XElement("RegistrationCode", txtRegistrationCode.Text));
doc.Add(xml);
// doc.Save(fileName);
// Read file to a string
// string contents = File.ReadAllText(fileName);
string key = String.Empty;
byte[] aesKey;
//using (var aes = Aes.Create())
//{
// aesKey = aes.Key;
// key = Convert.ToBase64String(aes.Key);
//}
string sKey = "LvtZELDrB394hbSOi3SurLWAvC8adNpZiJmQDJHdfJU=";
aesKey = Convert.FromBase64String(sKey);
string encyptedText = EncryptDecrpt.EncryptStringToBase64String(doc.ToString(), aesKey);
File.WriteAllText(fileName, encyptedText);
//doc.Save(fileName);
The Windows Service side that tries to decrypt:
try
{
string path = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
eventLog1.WriteEntry(path);
string fileName = System.IO.Path.Combine(path, "alphaService.xml");
string sKey = "LvtZELDrB394hbSOi3SurLWAvC8adNpZiJmQDJHdfJU=";
Byte[] keyBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(sKey);
var encryptedText = File.ReadAllText(fileName, new ASCIIEncoding());
string xmlStr = DecryptStringFromBase64String(encryptedText, keyBytes);
eventLog1.WriteEntry(xmlStr);
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xmlStr)))
{
reader.ReadToFollowing("DatabaseServerName");
DatabaseServerName = reader.ReadElementContentAsString();
reader.ReadToFollowing("DatabaseUserName");
DatabaseUserName = reader.ReadElementContentAsString();
reader.ReadToFollowing("DatabasePassword");
DatabasePassword = reader.ReadElementContentAsString();
reader.ReadToFollowing("RegistrationCode");
RegistrationCode = reader.ReadElementContentAsString();
}
eventLog1.WriteEntry("Configuration data loaded successfully");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
eventLog1.WriteEntry("Unable to load configuration data. " + ex.Message);
}

The algorithm I wrote below uses a random Initialization Vector that it puts at the beginning of the encrypted value so you can encrypt the same value twice and not get the same encrypted output. This is fairly normal and lets you only pass a single "secret" back and forth.
You will need to share your secret key by some out of bounds process because both encryption and decryption need to know the key. That is a seperate topic of key exchange that is documented in other places. Here is an SO link to get you started if you need some help on it.
Also if you are "making up" random values I recommend that you don't. Use something to help you like the following which generates random bytes and then converts them into a base64 string which is easier for human usage or some types of key exchange. Note that this is just an example of how you could generate random key's... in practice this may be based on some user input that is recreatable or you use the users hash value to lookup your random key that you generate. In any event here is the code for the key...
byte[] key;
string base64Key;
using (var aes = Aes.Create())
{
// key as byte[]
key = aes.Key;
// key as base64string - which one you use depends on how you store your keys
base64Key= Convert.ToBase64String(aes.Key);
}
Usage is as follows...
// you get the base64 encoded key from somewhere
var base64Key = "+CffHxKmykUvCrrCILd4rZDBcrIoe3w89jnPNXYi0rU=";
// convert it to byte[] or alternatively you could store your key as a byte[]
// but that depends on how you set things up.
var key = Convert.FromBase64String(base64Key);
var plainText = "EncryptThis";
var encryptedText = EncryptStringToBase64String(plainText, key);
var decryptedText = DecryptStringFromBase64String(encryptedText, key);
Here are the encryption methods... EncryptStringToBase64String and DecryptStringFromBase64String.
EDIT: Great point owlstead about using Aes.BlockSize for the IV size. I've also cleaned up the arguement checks.
private const int KeySize = 256; // in bits
static string EncryptStringToBase64String(string plainText, byte[] Key)
{
// Check arguments.
if (Key == null || Key.Length <= 0)
throw new ArgumentNullException("Key");
byte[] returnValue;
using (var aes = Aes.Create())
{
aes.KeySize = KeySize;
aes.GenerateIV();
aes.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
var iv = aes.IV;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(plainText))
return Convert.ToBase64String(iv);
var encryptor = aes.CreateEncryptor(Key, iv);
// Create the streams used for encryption.
using (MemoryStream msEncrypt = new MemoryStream())
{
using (CryptoStream csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
using (StreamWriter swEncrypt = new StreamWriter(csEncrypt))
{
//Write all data to the stream.
swEncrypt.Write(plainText);
}
// this is just our encrypted data
var encrypted = msEncrypt.ToArray();
returnValue = new byte[encrypted.Length + iv.Length];
// append our IV so our decrypt can get it
Array.Copy(iv, returnValue, iv.Length);
// append our encrypted data
Array.Copy(encrypted, 0, returnValue, iv.Length, encrypted.Length);
}
}
}
// return encrypted bytes converted to Base64String
return Convert.ToBase64String(returnValue);
}
static string DecryptStringFromBase64String(string cipherText, byte[] Key)
{
// Check arguments.
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(cipherText))
return string.Empty;
if (Key == null || Key.Length <= 0)
throw new ArgumentNullException("Key");
string plaintext = null;
// this is all of the bytes
var allBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText);
using (var aes = Aes.Create())
{
aes.KeySize = KeySize;
aes.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
// get our IV that we pre-pended to the data
byte[] iv = new byte[aes.BlockSize/8];
if (allBytes.Length < iv.Length)
throw new ArgumentException("Message was less than IV size.");
Array.Copy(allBytes, iv, iv.Length);
// get the data we need to decrypt
byte[] cipherBytes = new byte[allBytes.Length - iv.Length];
Array.Copy(allBytes, iv.Length, cipherBytes, 0, cipherBytes.Length);
// Create a decrytor to perform the stream transform.
var decryptor = aes.CreateDecryptor(Key, iv);
// Create the streams used for decryption.
using (MemoryStream msDecrypt = new MemoryStream(cipherBytes))
{
using (CryptoStream csDecrypt = new CryptoStream(msDecrypt, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
{
using (StreamReader srDecrypt = new StreamReader(csDecrypt))
{
// Read the decrypted bytes from the decrypting stream
// and place them in a string.
plaintext = srDecrypt.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
}
return plaintext;
}
EDIT 2: Never convert actual binary data (like a random key) into a string using a TextEncoding. If data starts life as a string and you convert into binary using an encoding then and ONLY then can you convert it from binary into a string using the proper encoding. Otherwise you will have code that works sometimes which is a recipe for torturing yourself.
// This is base64 not UTF8, unicode, ASCII or anything else!!!
string sKey = "LvtZELDrB394hbSOi3SurLWAvC8adNpZiJmQDJHdfJU=";
aesKey = Convert.FromBase64String(sKey);
Edit 3:
Why use File.WriteAllText to write the file but use File.ReadAllBytes when you read it? You can write it and read it as text and use ASCII encoding since base64 is guaranteed to be ASCII. Also Decrypt returns a decrypted string which you are not storing or using. The decrypted string is what you need to parse because it's your xml.
You can use this for saving the file...
var encryptedText = File.ReadAllText(fileName, new ASCIIEncoding());
In your decrypt you should do this...
var encryptedText = File.ReadAllText(fileName, new ASCIIEncoding());
string xmlStr = DecryptStringFromBase64String(encryptedStr , keyBytes);
EDIT 4: I've attempted to duplicate your exception and I can't make it happen... here is my test code that I'm running in a console app and it works.
public static void EncryptMethod()
{
var fileName = #"c:/text.xml";
XDocument doc = new XDocument();
XElement xml = new XElement("Info",
new XElement("DatabaseServerName", "txtServerName.Text"),
new XElement("DatabaseUserName", "txtDatabaseUserName.Text"),
new XElement("DatabasePassword", "txtDatabasePassword.Text"),
new XElement("ServiceAccount", "txtAccount.Text"),
new XElement("ServicePassword", "txtServicePassword.Text"),
new XElement("RegistrationCode", "txtRegistrationCode.Text"));
doc.Add(xml);
var sKey = "LvtZELDrB394hbSOi3SurLWAvC8adNpZiJmQDJHdfJU=";
var aesKey = Convert.FromBase64String(sKey);
string encyptedText = EncryptStringToBase64String(doc.ToString(), aesKey);
File.WriteAllText(fileName, encyptedText);
}
public static void DecryptMethod()
{
var fileName = #"c:/text.xml";
string sKey = "LvtZELDrB394hbSOi3SurLWAvC8adNpZiJmQDJHdfJU=";
Byte[] keyBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(sKey);
var encryptedText = File.ReadAllText(fileName, new ASCIIEncoding());
string xmlStr = DecryptStringFromBase64String(encryptedText, keyBytes);
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xmlStr)))
{
reader.ReadToFollowing("DatabaseServerName");
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadElementContentAsString());
reader.ReadToFollowing("DatabaseUserName");
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadElementContentAsString());
reader.ReadToFollowing("DatabasePassword");
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadElementContentAsString());
reader.ReadToFollowing("RegistrationCode");
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadElementContentAsString());
}
}
Usage from the console app...
EncryptMethod();
DecryptMethod();

Decrypting using rijndael and C# issue

I am encrypting some text and converting it to base64 and upon decryption I appear to have some odd characters as it blocks the rest of the output...
For example, I want to encrypt 10,2013-12-16 10:22:24,1387189344 which converts to MaEA8gd7Xyg8tNBrtVBlb75U/a0J9x5x7UryI81gy3R+ZvL01p05uzDtzdBWL5Pg (base64) and then when I decrypt I try to print the output as "[" + decrypted + "]" but the second bracket doesn't come out.....
Here's my code. Thanks in advance.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DataSync;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
namespace EncryptionTest
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
// encrypt
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtOutput.Text = Encrypt(txtData.Text, txtCIV.Text, txtSecret.Text);
}
// decrypt
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
txtOutput.Text = "[" + Decrypt(txtData.Text, txtCIV.Text, txtSecret.Text) + "\r\n" + "]";
}
public string GenerateIV()
{
RijndaelManaged RM = new RijndaelManaged();
RM.KeySize = 128;
RM.BlockSize = 128;
RM.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
RM.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros;
RM.GenerateIV();
return Convert.ToBase64String(RM.IV);
}
public string Decrypt(string Encrypted, string IV, string SecretKey)
{
byte[] DecryptThis = Convert.FromBase64String(Encrypted);
byte[] DecryptIV = Convert.FromBase64String(IV);
byte[] Key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(SecretKey);
SHA256 SHA256Obj = SHA256.Create();
byte[] PrivateKeyHash = SHA256Obj.ComputeHash(Key, 0, Key.Length);
RijndaelManaged RM = new RijndaelManaged();
RM.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
RM.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros;
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, RM.CreateDecryptor(PrivateKeyHash, DecryptIV), CryptoStreamMode.Write);
cs.Write(DecryptThis, 0, DecryptThis.Length);
cs.FlushFinalBlock();
cs.Close();
// Strip null (padding) characters
int Position = -1;
foreach (byte Char in ms.ToArray())
{
++Position;
if (Char == 0)
{
break;
}
}
string Temp = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
return Temp.Substring(0, Position+1).Trim();
}
public string Encrypt(string ToBeEncrypted, string IV, string SecretKey)
{
byte[] EncryptThis = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(ToBeEncrypted);
byte[] EncryptIV = Convert.FromBase64String(IV);
byte[] Key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(SecretKey);
SHA256 SHA256Obj = SHA256.Create();
byte[] PrivateKeyHash = SHA256Obj.ComputeHash(Key, 0, Key.Length);
RijndaelManaged RM = new RijndaelManaged();
RM.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
RM.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros;
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, RM.CreateEncryptor(PrivateKeyHash, EncryptIV), CryptoStreamMode.Write);
cs.Write(EncryptThis, 0, EncryptThis.Length);
cs.FlushFinalBlock();
cs.Close();
return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray());
}
}
}

You have a line break in your code here:
txtOutput.Text = "[" + Decrypt(txtData.Text, txtCIV.Text, txtSecret.Text) + "\r\n" + "]";
^^^
You have to place the line break after the bracket:
txtOutput.Text = "[" + Decrypt(txtData.Text, txtCIV.Text, txtSecret.Text) + "]" + "\r\n";
Also I am not sure if you even need the line break. Are you using a multiline textbox?

You are not removing all the "\0" in your Decrypt() method.
at line 82, replace
return Temp.Substring(0, Position + 1).Trim();
by
return Temp.Substring(0, Position).Trim();

How to make a password protected file in C#

I know this question has been asked before but the answer simply wasn't what I needed. I need to create a password protected text file. I don't mean to encrypt but just create a file with a simple text password. It would also be nice to find out how to open this file in C# as well.
Create a plain-text password protected file and open this file at a later time. All in C#.

Password protecting a text file that is not encrypted is not really possible. However, you can validate if your text file has been modified, so that you are aware it has been altered by someone.
The concept is simple. Use a password to encrypt or obfuscate a hash of the data (text file). You can the later check this hash against the current data and determine whether or not it matches. You will need to store this signature (encrypted hash) somewhere maybe in a file called (textfile.sig).
You can use the SHA1Managed .NET class to create the hash, and the TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider class to encrypt the resulting hash.
something like...
public string GetSignature(string text, string password)
{
byte[] key;
byte[] key2;
GetKeys(password, out key, out key2);
string sig = encryptstring(GetSHA1(text), key, key2);
}
public void GetKeys(string password, out byte[] key, out byte[] key2)
{
byte[] data = StringToByte(password);
SHA1 sha = new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider();
MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] hash1 = sha.ComputeHash(data);
byte[] hash2 = md5.ComputeHash(data);
// Generate some key data based on the supplied password;
byte[] key = new byte[24];
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
{
key[i] = hash1[i];
}
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
{
key[i + 20] = hash2[i];
}
byte[] key2 = new byte[8];
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
{
key2[i] = hash2[i+4];
}
}
public string GetSHA1(string text)
{
UnicodeEncoding UE = new UnicodeEncoding();
byte[] hashValue;
byte[] message = UE.GetBytes(text);
SHA1Managed hashString = new SHA1Managed();
string hex = "";
hashValue = hashString.ComputeHash(message);
foreach (byte x in hashValue)
{
hex += String.Format("{0:x2}", x);
}
return hex;
}
public string ByteToString(byte[] buff)
{
string sbinary = "";
for (int i = 0; i < buff.Length; i++)
{
sbinary += buff[i].ToString("X2"); // hex format
}
return (sbinary);
}
public string encryptstring(string instr, byte[] key, byte[] key2)
{
TripleDES threedes = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider();
threedes.Key = key;
threedes.IV = key2;
ICryptoTransform encryptor = threedes.CreateEncryptor(key, key2);
MemoryStream msEncrypt = new MemoryStream();
CryptoStream csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write);
// Write all data to the crypto stream and flush it.
csEncrypt.Write(StringToByte(instr), 0, StringToByte(instr).Length);
csEncrypt.FlushFinalBlock();
return ByteToString(msEncrypt.ToArray());
}
public string decryptstring(string instr, byte[] key, byte[] key2)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(instr)) return "";
TripleDES threedes = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider();
threedes.Key = key;
threedes.IV = key2;
ICryptoTransform decryptor = threedes.CreateDecryptor(key, key2);
// Now decrypt the previously encrypted message using the decryptor
MemoryStream msDecrypt = new MemoryStream(HexStringToByte(instr));
CryptoStream csDecrypt = new CryptoStream(msDecrypt, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read);
try
{
return ByteToString(csDecrypt);
}
catch (CryptographicException)
{
return "";
}
}
Otherwise, you will if you want to hide the data from people, you need to encrypt the data in the text file. You can do this by calling encryptstring() with the full text data instead of the hash of the data.

Whole point of the question was to not have to encrypt the data manually but let Windows deal with it so I decided to go with Hans Passant's suggestion and simply use a password protected zip file with the needed information (txt files) inside it. This can be easily done with DotNetZip.

Encryption-decryption between Ruby and Dot net

I need tyhe dot net equivalent of the following code. Matter is, I am encrypting using Ruby on client side, here is the code.
The encoded string will be passed to a C# web service. That has to decrypt the string.
If someone can provide the dot net equivalent of this code, then it will be helpful.
require 'rubygems'
require 'ezcrypto'
require 'crypt/rijndael'
plaintext = '24.9195N 17.821E'
aes_key = Crypt::Rijndael.new('0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef')
aes_cyphertext = aes_key.encrypt_string(plaintext)
print "\n"
print aes_cyphertext +"\n"
print Base64.encode64(aes_cyphertext)
print "\n"
print aes_key.decrypt_string(aes_cyphertext)
print "\n"

It's going to be something like this code shown below as a unit test. The first part does the encryption - the second half does the decryption.
Paste the code into a new MSTest unit test (Create New Test Project or add to an existing one).
The key and the iv are what you'll need to set accordingly.
//needed to convert from hex string
public static byte[] FromHexString(string hexString)
{
int NumberChars = hexString.Length;
byte[] bytes = new byte[NumberChars / 2];
for (int i = 0; i < NumberChars; i += 2)
bytes[i / 2] = Convert.ToByte(hexString.Substring(i, 2), 16);
return bytes;
}
[TestMethod]
public void Test()
{
string toEncryptString = "24.9195N 17.821E";
//initialise key and IV (note - all zero IV is not recommended!)
byte[] key = FromHexString("0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef");
byte[] iv = FromHexString("00000000000000000000000000000000");
byte[] toEncrypt = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(toEncryptString);
byte[] cipherBytes = null;
string cipherText = null;
//encrypt
using (System.Security.Cryptography.Rijndael r = new RijndaelManaged())
{
r.Key = key;
r.IV = iv;
using(System.Security.Cryptography.ICryptoTransform transform
= r.CreateEncryptor())
{
using (var mStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
{
using (var cStream =
new CryptoStream(mStream, transform, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
cStream.Write(toEncrypt, 0, toEncrypt.Length);
cStream.FlushFinalBlock();
cipherBytes = mStream.ToArray();
cipherText = Convert.ToBase64String(cipherBytes);
}
}
}
}
//decrypt
byte[] toDecrypt = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText);
string decryptedString = null;
using (System.Security.Cryptography.Rijndael r = new RijndaelManaged())
{
r.Key = key;
r.IV = iv;
using(System.Security.Cryptography.ICryptoTransform transform2
= r.CreateDecryptor()) // <-- difference here
{
using (var mStream2 = new System.IO.MemoryStream())
{
using (var cStream2 =
new CryptoStream(mStream2, transform2, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
cStream2.Write(toDecrypt, 0, toDecrypt.Length);
cStream2.FlushFinalBlock();
decryptedString =
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(mStream2.ToArray());
}
}
}
}
Assert.AreEqual(toEncryptString, decryptedString);
}