Encrypt with CryptoJS and decrypt with PHP

Question

On the client side (mobile device) I encrypt a users password with CryptoJS:

var lib_crypt = require(\'aes\');

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Answer 1

Here is a solution based on this comment, using openssl_decrypt from PHP.

The JavaScript part (development with NodeJS for browsers) — first, install CryptoJS with npm install crypto-js, then your JS code:

import aes from 'crypto-js/aes'
import encHex from 'crypto-js/enc-hex'
import padZeroPadding from 'crypto-js/pad-zeropadding'

// message to encrypt
let msg = "Hello world";

// the key and iv should be 32 hex digits each, any hex digits you want, but it needs to be 32 on length each
let key = encHex.parse("0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef");
let iv =  encHex.parse("abcdef9876543210abcdef9876543210");

// encrypt the message
let encrypted = aes.encrypt(msg, key, {iv:iv, padding:padZeroPadding}).toString();

// and finally, send this "encrypted" string to your server

On the PHP side, your code will look like that:

// we use the same key and IV
$key = hex2bin("0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef");
$iv =  hex2bin("abcdef9876543210abcdef9876543210");

// we receive the encrypted string from the post
$encrypted = $_POST['decrypt'];
$decrypted = openssl_decrypt($encrypted, 'AES-128-CBC', $key, OPENSSL_ZERO_PADDING, $iv);
// finally we trim to get our original string
$decrypted = trim($decrypted);