How to Convert Bytes to Nsstring After Aes Cryptoswift Cipher

How to convert bytes to NSString after AES CryptoSwift cipher

1. Do not use CryptoSwift, it is neither fast (500-1000 times slower than Common Crypto) nor secure (it lacks substantial vetting).

2. Encrypted data is undistinguishable from random data bytes.

3. Not all data arrays are convertible to strings in any encoding. There are many data bytes that do not have a printable representation or any representation in a string encoding. That is why raw data bytes are generally encoded to Base64 or hexadecimal strings.

AES Encrypt and Decrypt

I found the solution, it is a good library.

Cross platform 256bit AES encryption / decryption.

This project contains the implementation of 256 bit AES encryption which works on all the platforms (C#, iOS, Android). One of the key objective is to make AES work on all the platforms with simple implementation.

Platforms Supported:
iOS ,
Android ,
Windows (C#).

https://github.com/Pakhee/Cross-platform-AES-encryption

Swift 2.1 [UInt8] --utf8-- String?

let buffUInt8: Array<UInt8> = [97, 98, 115, 100, 114, 102, 103, 104, 0]

// you need Int8 array
let buffInt8 = buffUInt8.map{ Int8(bitPattern: $0)}
let str = String.fromCString(buffInt8) // "absdrfgh"

alternatively you can use

String.fromCStringRepairingIllFormedUTF8(cs: UnsafePointer<CChar>) -> (String?, hadError: Bool)

Get hash from file using CryptoSwift

[230, 247, 23, 156, 176, 104, 9, 182, 16, 24, 3, 218, 58, 196, 25, 30, 219, 114, 236, 248, 47, 49, 184, 174, 125, 191, 1, 14, 26, 120, 186, 38]

and

e6f7179cb06809b6101803da3ac4191edb72ecf82f31b8ae7dbf010e1a78ba26

are just two different representations of the same hash value: The first
as an array of integers, the second as a string with the hexadecimal
representation of the bytes.

The .toHexString() method of the CryptoSwift library creates a
hex string from the array, therefore

print(hash.toHexString())

should produce the expected result.

Issue using CCCrypt (CommonCrypt) in Swift

Swift 2.0

Here is an example

If this is not exactly what is needed the methods should be a good example

Note: the key string is converted to data

Add Security.framework to the project

Add #import <CommonCrypto/CommonCryptor.h> to the bridging header.

let keyString        = "12345678901234567890123456789012"
let keyData: NSData! = (keyString as NSString).dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) as NSData!
print("keyLength   = \(keyData.length), keyData   = \(keyData)")

let message       = "Don´t try to read this text. Top Secret Stuff"
let data: NSData! = (message as NSString).dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) as NSData!
print("data length = \(data.length), data      = \(data)")

let cryptData    = NSMutableData(length: Int(data.length) + kCCBlockSizeAES128)!

let keyLength              = size_t(kCCKeySizeAES256)
let operation: CCOperation = UInt32(kCCEncrypt)
let algoritm:  CCAlgorithm = UInt32(kCCAlgorithmAES128)
let options:   CCOptions   = UInt32(kCCOptionECBMode + kCCOptionPKCS7Padding)

var numBytesEncrypted :size_t = 0

var cryptStatus = CCCrypt(operation,
    algoritm,
    options,
    keyData.bytes, keyLength,
    nil,
    data.bytes, data.length,
    cryptData.mutableBytes, cryptData.length,
    &numBytesEncrypted)

if UInt32(cryptStatus) == UInt32(kCCSuccess) {
    cryptData.length = Int(numBytesEncrypted)
    print("cryptLength = \(numBytesEncrypted), cryptData = \(cryptData)")

    // Not all data is a UTF-8 string so Base64 is used
    let base64cryptString = cryptData.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(.Encoding64CharacterLineLength)
    print("base64cryptString = \(base64cryptString)")

} else {
    print("Error: \(cryptStatus)")
}

Output:

keyLength   = 32, keyData   = <31323334 35363738 39303132 33343536 37383930 31323334 35363738 39303132>
dataLength  = 46, data      = <446f6ec2 b4742074 72792074 6f207265 61642074 68697320 74657874 2e20546f 70205365 63726574 20537475 6666>
cryptLength = 48, cryptData = <118a32dc c23f7caa 883abc3c 1c7f0770 e200016b 2737acfa 17bb96fb a02b02a7 c147603b 06acd863 94bb8ff2 6cb14515>
base64cryptString = EYoy3MI/fKqIOrw8HH8HcOIAAWsnN6z6F7uW+6ArAqfBR2A7BqzYY5S7j/JssUUV

Swift 3

The iv is prefixed to the encrypted data

aesCBC128Encrypt will create a random IV and prefixed to the encrypted code.

aesCBC128Decrypt will use the prefixed IV during decryption.

Inputs are the data and key are Data objects. If an encoded form such as Base64 if required convert to and/or from in the calling method.

The key should be exactly 128-bits (16-bytes), 192-bits (24-bytes) or 256-bits (32-bytes) in length. If another key size is used an error will be thrown.

PKCS#7 padding is set by default.

This example requires Common Crypto

It is necessary to have a bridging header to the project:

#import <CommonCrypto/CommonCrypto.h>
Add the Security.framework to the project.

This is example, not production code.

enum AESError: Error {
    case KeyError((String, Int))
    case IVError((String, Int))
    case CryptorError((String, Int))
}

// The iv is prefixed to the encrypted data
func aesCBCEncrypt(data:Data, keyData:Data) throws -> Data {
    let keyLength = keyData.count
    let validKeyLengths = [kCCKeySizeAES128, kCCKeySizeAES192, kCCKeySizeAES256]
    if (validKeyLengths.contains(keyLength) == false) {
        throw AESError.KeyError(("Invalid key length", keyLength))
    }

    let ivSize = kCCBlockSizeAES128;
    let cryptLength = size_t(ivSize + data.count + kCCBlockSizeAES128)
    var cryptData = Data(count:cryptLength)

    let status = cryptData.withUnsafeMutableBytes {ivBytes in
        SecRandomCopyBytes(kSecRandomDefault, kCCBlockSizeAES128, ivBytes)
    }
    if (status != 0) {
        throw AESError.IVError(("IV generation failed", Int(status)))
    }

    var numBytesEncrypted :size_t = 0
    let options   = CCOptions(kCCOptionPKCS7Padding)

    let cryptStatus = cryptData.withUnsafeMutableBytes {cryptBytes in
        data.withUnsafeBytes {dataBytes in
            keyData.withUnsafeBytes {keyBytes in
                CCCrypt(CCOperation(kCCEncrypt),
                        CCAlgorithm(kCCAlgorithmAES),
                        options,
                        keyBytes, keyLength,
                        cryptBytes,
                        dataBytes, data.count,
                        cryptBytes+kCCBlockSizeAES128, cryptLength,
                        &numBytesEncrypted)
            }
        }
    }

    if UInt32(cryptStatus) == UInt32(kCCSuccess) {
        cryptData.count = numBytesEncrypted + ivSize
    }
    else {
        throw AESError.CryptorError(("Encryption failed", Int(cryptStatus)))
    }

    return cryptData;
}

// The iv is prefixed to the encrypted data
func aesCBCDecrypt(data:Data, keyData:Data) throws -> Data? {
    let keyLength = keyData.count
    let validKeyLengths = [kCCKeySizeAES128, kCCKeySizeAES192, kCCKeySizeAES256]
    if (validKeyLengths.contains(keyLength) == false) {
        throw AESError.KeyError(("Invalid key length", keyLength))
    }

    let ivSize = kCCBlockSizeAES128;
    let clearLength = size_t(data.count - ivSize)
    var clearData = Data(count:clearLength)

    var numBytesDecrypted :size_t = 0
    let options   = CCOptions(kCCOptionPKCS7Padding)

    let cryptStatus = clearData.withUnsafeMutableBytes {cryptBytes in
        data.withUnsafeBytes {dataBytes in
            keyData.withUnsafeBytes {keyBytes in
                CCCrypt(CCOperation(kCCDecrypt),
                        CCAlgorithm(kCCAlgorithmAES128),
                        options,
                        keyBytes, keyLength,
                        dataBytes,
                        dataBytes+kCCBlockSizeAES128, clearLength,
                        cryptBytes, clearLength,
                        &numBytesDecrypted)
            }
        }
    }

    if UInt32(cryptStatus) == UInt32(kCCSuccess) {
        clearData.count = numBytesDecrypted
    }
    else {
        throw AESError.CryptorError(("Decryption failed", Int(cryptStatus)))
    }

    return clearData;
}

Example usage:

let clearData = "clearData0123456".data(using:String.Encoding.utf8)!
let keyData   = "keyData890123456".data(using:String.Encoding.utf8)!
print("clearData:   \(clearData as NSData)")
print("keyData:     \(keyData as NSData)")

var cryptData :Data?
do {
    cryptData = try aesCBCEncrypt(data:clearData, keyData:keyData)
    print("cryptData:   \(cryptData! as NSData)")
}
catch (let status) {
    print("Error aesCBCEncrypt: \(status)")
}

let decryptData :Data?
do {
    let decryptData = try aesCBCDecrypt(data:cryptData!, keyData:keyData)
    print("decryptData: \(decryptData! as NSData)")
}
catch (let status) {
    print("Error aesCBCDecrypt: \(status)")
}

Example Output:

clearData:   <636c6561 72446174 61303132 33343536>
keyData:     <6b657944 61746138 39303132 33343536>
cryptData:   <92c57393 f454d959 5a4d158f 6e1cd3e7 77986ee9 b2970f49 2bafcf1a 8ee9d51a bde49c31 d7780256 71837a61 60fa4be0>
decryptData: <636c6561 72446174 61303132 33343536>

Notes:

One typical problem with CBC mode example code is that it leaves the creation and sharing of the random IV to the user. This example includes generation of the IV, prefixed the encrypted data and uses the prefixed IV during decryption. This frees the casual user from the details that are necessary for CBC mode.

For security the encrypted data also should have authentication, this example code does not provide that in order to be small and allow better interoperability for other platforms.

Also missing is key derivation of the key from a password, it is suggested that PBKDF2 be used is text passwords are used as keying material.

For robust production ready multi-platform encryption code see RNCryptor.

How to decrypt AES 128 with swift using CryptoSwift framework

See this SO answer for sample Swift AES code.

When you say: "Cipher : AES-128" that is ambiguous. presumably you mean a 128-bit key size. The key supplied is 24 bytes which would be a key size of 192-bits.

CBC mode requires an iv but none is specified. Many inmplementations will use 0x00 bytes by default but that is not guaranteed, Common Crypto does. But it is always best to supply the iv.

What do you expect wen you say: "Key derived from : Simple decoding"? The current best practives solution is PBKDF2.

You need a Bridging header and add #import in it. If you dont have a bridging header let the system add one for out, see Adding a Bridging Header, you can delete the .m file after step 3.

You also need to add Security.framework to the project. What version if Swift are you using.

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