DPAPI fails with CryptographicException when trying to decrypt Chrome cookies

Question

i am trying to get session from my Chrome browser. i can see 2 cookie files in Developer Tools. but this is inconvenient for the user to get cookie values from browser, i wo

Answer 1

For people who are looking for the code, I'm expanding on Cerberus answer. Starting Chrome 80 version, cookies are encrypted using the AES256-GCM algorithm, and the AES encryption key is encrypted with the DPAPI encryption system, and the encrypted key is stored inside the ‘Local State’ file.

byte[] encryptedData=
string encKey = File.ReadAllText(localAppDataPath + @"\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State");
encKey = JObject.Parse(encKey)["os_crypt"]["encrypted_key"].ToString();
var decodedKey = System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.Unprotect(Convert.FromBase64String(encKey).Skip(5).ToArray(), null, System.Security.Cryptography.DataProtectionScope.LocalMachine);
_cookie = _decryptWithKey(encryptedData, decodedKey, 3);

Key size is 256 bits. Encypted message format is, pay load('v12')+nonce (12 bytes)+cipherText

private string _decryptWithKey(byte[] message, byte[] key, int nonSecretPayloadLength)
{
    const int KEY_BIT_SIZE = 256;
    const int MAC_BIT_SIZE = 128;
    const int NONCE_BIT_SIZE = 96;

    if (key == null || key.Length != KEY_BIT_SIZE / 8)
        throw new ArgumentException(String.Format("Key needs to be {0} bit!", KEY_BIT_SIZE), "key");
    if (message == null || message.Length == 0)
        throw new ArgumentException("Message required!", "message");

    using (var cipherStream = new MemoryStream(message))
    using (var cipherReader = new BinaryReader(cipherStream))
    {
        var nonSecretPayload = cipherReader.ReadBytes(nonSecretPayloadLength);
        var nonce = cipherReader.ReadBytes(NONCE_BIT_SIZE / 8);
        var cipher = new GcmBlockCipher(new AesEngine());
        var parameters = new AeadParameters(new KeyParameter(key), MAC_BIT_SIZE, nonce);
        cipher.Init(false, parameters);
        var cipherText = cipherReader.ReadBytes(message.Length);
        var plainText = new byte[cipher.GetOutputSize(cipherText.Length)];
        try
        {
            var len = cipher.ProcessBytes(cipherText, 0, cipherText.Length, plainText, 0);
            cipher.DoFinal(plainText, len);
        }
        catch (InvalidCipherTextException)
        {
            return null;
        }
        return Encoding.Default.GetString(plainText);
    }
}

Needed packages

1) Newtonsoft JSON .net

2) Bouncy Castle Crypto package