How to do encryption using AES in Openssl

Question

I am trying to write a sample program to do AES encryption using Openssl. I tried going through Openssl documentation( it\'s a pain), could not figure out much. I went throu

Answer 1

I don't know what's wrong with yours but one thing for sure is you need to call AES_set_decrypt_key() before decrypting the message. Also don't try to print out as %s because the encrypted message isn't composed by ascii characters anymore.. For example:

static const unsigned char key[] = {
    0x00, 0x11, 0x22, 0x33, 0x44, 0x55, 0x66, 0x77,
    0x88, 0x99, 0xaa, 0xbb, 0xcc, 0xdd, 0xee, 0xff,
    0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07,
    0x08, 0x09, 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c, 0x0d, 0x0e, 0x0f
};

int main()
{
    unsigned char text[]="hello world!";
    unsigned char enc_out[80];
    unsigned char dec_out[80];

    AES_KEY enc_key, dec_key;

    AES_set_encrypt_key(key, 128, &enc_key);
    AES_encrypt(text, enc_out, &enc_key);      

    AES_set_decrypt_key(key,128,&dec_key);
    AES_decrypt(enc_out, dec_out, &dec_key);

    int i;

    printf("original:\t");
    for(i=0;*(text+i)!=0x00;i++)
        printf("%X ",*(text+i));
    printf("\nencrypted:\t");
    for(i=0;*(enc_out+i)!=0x00;i++)
        printf("%X ",*(enc_out+i));
    printf("\ndecrypted:\t");
    for(i=0;*(dec_out+i)!=0x00;i++)
        printf("%X ",*(dec_out+i));
    printf("\n");

    return 0;
} 

U1: your key is 192 bit isn't it...