Encrypting/decrypting 3DES in Ruby

Question

I have a key.bin file which content is something along the lines of:

-12, 110, 93, 14, -48, ...

This is being used by a service to decrypt 3DES content, but I need to encrypt it via Ruby.

I've tried loads of scenarios with how to set the key and what to do with it, but to no avail as of yet:

• Tried splitting the key by , and converting each number to hex, concatenating the hex values to make the key
• Tried converting the number string to binary
• Tried converting the resulting hex to binary

I assume what I need to do is something simple like:

des = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new('des3')
des.decrypt
des.key = mistery # this step is where i'm having problems at
final = des.update(encrypted) + des.final

Any ideas on what I should do with this key?

Key sample:

-62,-53,124,-110,37,-88,-48,31,-57,93,70,-101,44,69,-88,-57,-123,-99,118,-119,110,55,11,14

Data sample:

NEb2b9sYXgod6mTvaRv+MRsTJvIiTTI9VjnDGcxjxcN5qBH7FXvxYI6Oj16FeKKsoQvjAmdju2SQ
ifJqPJTl97xeEbjdwm+W8XJnWs99ku85EznVBhzQxI1H2jPiZIcrqIVCWdd/OQun7AjK4w2+5yb7
DPN2OiCIEOz2zK6skJrBw3oTEHpXrSEhydOYxqI+c5hC4z3k5nktN6WSVLIo8EAjwenHPMDxboWF
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vcvlwgajNGHmxuVU83Ldn1e5rin7QqpjASqeDGFQHkiSbp4x6axVce2OGgfFpZdzCM7y6jLPpOlX
LOC/Bs1vTwMzcBNRB/Fo4nsX9i4It8Spm228XQNUpQe4i9QGe/4AyKIhHoM8DkXwPZ6rWp0W0UMe
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Answer 1

Got it working!

Here's how:

Decryption

def read_key(key_file)
  File.read(key_file).split(',').map { |x| x.to_i }.pack('c*')
end
des = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new('des-ede3')
des.decrypt
des.key = read_key('key.bin')

result = des.update(decoded) + des.final

Encryption

def read_key(key_file)
  File.read(key_file).split(',').map { |x| x.to_i }.pack('c*')
end
des2 = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new('des-ede3')
des2.encrypt
des2.key = read_key('key.bin')

result = des2.update(result) + des2.final
puts Base64.encode64(result)