AES string encryption in Objective-C

Question

My Objective-C App requires text / string encryption (specifically nsstring).

I know AES is the most secure encryption method available for consumer use. I also und

Answer 1

I got success using AES with the codes below:

Header file

#import 
#import 

NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN

@interface SecurityUtils : NSObject

+ (NSString *)encrypt:(NSString *)plainText error:(NSError **)error;
+ (NSString *)decrypt:(NSString *)plainText error:(NSError **)error;

@end

NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END

Implementation file

NSString *const IV = @"AEE0515D0B08A4E4";
NSString *const KEY =  @"9336565521E5F082BB5929E8E033BC69";


#import "SecurityUtils.h"


@implementation SecurityUtils


+ (NSString *)encrypt:(NSString *)plainText error:(NSError **)error {
    NSMutableData *result =  [SecurityUtils doAES:[plainText dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] context: kCCEncrypt error:error];
    return [result base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0];
}


+ (NSString *)decrypt:(NSString *)encryptedBase64String error:(NSError **)error {
    NSData *dataToDecrypt = [[NSData alloc] initWithBase64EncodedString:encryptedBase64String options:0];
    NSMutableData *result = [SecurityUtils doAES:dataToDecrypt context: kCCDecrypt error:error];
    return [[NSString alloc] initWithData:result encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

}

+ (NSMutableData *)doAES:(NSData *)dataIn context:(CCOperation)kCCEncrypt_or_kCCDecrypt error:(NSError **)error {
        CCCryptorStatus ccStatus   = kCCSuccess;
        size_t          cryptBytes = 0;
        NSMutableData  *dataOut    = [NSMutableData dataWithLength:dataIn.length + kCCBlockSizeBlowfish];
        NSData *key =[KEY dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSData *iv = [IV dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

        ccStatus = CCCrypt( kCCEncrypt_or_kCCDecrypt,
                           kCCAlgorithmAES,
                           kCCOptionPKCS7Padding,
                           key.bytes,
                           key.length,
                           (iv)?nil:iv.bytes,
                           dataIn.bytes,
                           dataIn.length,
                           dataOut.mutableBytes,
                           dataOut.length,
                           &cryptBytes);

        if (ccStatus == kCCSuccess) {
            dataOut.length = cryptBytes;
        }
        else {
            if (error) {
                *error = [NSError errorWithDomain:@"kEncryptionError"
                                             code:ccStatus
                                         userInfo:nil];
            }
            dataOut = nil;
        }

        return dataOut;
}


@end

IOS TESTING

NSError *error;
NSString *encrypted = [SecurityUtils encrypt:@"My Secret Text" error:&error];
NSLog(@"encrypted: %@",encrypted);
NSLog(@"decrypted: %@",[SecurityUtils decrypt:encrypted error:&error]);

Finally, the tests outputs:

IOS OUTPUT

2019-05-16 21:38:02.947043-0300 MyApp[63392:1590665] encrypted: EJ41am5W1k6fA7ygFjTSEw==
2019-05-16 21:38:02.947270-0300 MyApp[63392:1590665] decrypted: My Secret Text

My repo on github with this examples: https://github.com/juliancorrea/aes-crypto-android-and-ios