Decrypting AES256 with node.js returns wrong final block length

Question

Using this Gist I was able to successfully decrypt AES256 in Node.js 0.8.7. Then when I upgraded to Node.js 0.10.24, I now see this error:

TypeError:

Answer 1

As your answer states, those functions work with Buffers now unless you specify an encoding. That said, you'd be better off avoiding binary encoded strings entirely and treat everything as Buffers until you strictly need a string for something. This way you can also use your encryption helpers to process non-text content.

var crypto = require('crypto');

var AESCrypt = {};

AESCrypt.decrypt = function(cryptkey, iv, encryptdata) {
    var decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv('aes-256-cbc', cryptkey, iv);
    return Buffer.concat([
        decipher.update(encryptdata),
        decipher.final()
    ]);
}

AESCrypt.encrypt = function(cryptkey, iv, cleardata) {
    var encipher = crypto.createCipheriv('aes-256-cbc', cryptkey, iv);
    return Buffer.concat([
        encipher.update(cleardata),
        encipher.final()
    ]);
}

var cryptkey = crypto.createHash('sha256').update('Nixnogen').digest(),
iv = new Buffer('a2xhcgAAAAAAAAAA'),
buf = new Buffer("Here is some data for the encrypt"), // 32 chars
enc = AESCrypt.encrypt(cryptkey, iv, buf);
var dec = AESCrypt.decrypt(cryptkey, iv, enc);

console.warn("encrypt length: ", enc.length);
console.warn("encrypt in Base64:", enc.toString('base64'));
console.warn("decrypt all: " + dec.toString('utf8'));