I know other questions have been asked on this but none so far have provided a solution or are exactly the issue I have.
The class below handles the encryption and decryption of strings, the key and vector passed in are ALWAYS the same.
The strings being encrypted and decrypted are always numbers, most work but the occasional one fails when decrypting (but only on the production server). I should mention that both local and production environments are in IIS6 on Windows Server 2003, the code that uses the class sits in a .ashx handler. The example that fails on the production server is "0000232668"
The error message is
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Padding is invalid and cannot be removed. at System.Security.Cryptography.RijndaelManagedTransform.DecryptData(Byte[] inputBuffer, Int32 inputOffset, Int32 inputCount, Byte[]& outputBuffer, Int32 outputOffset, PaddingMode paddingMode, Boolean fLast)
And for the code
public class Aes
{
private byte[] Key;
private byte[] Vector;
private ICryptoTransform EncryptorTransform, DecryptorTransform;
private System.Text.UTF8Encoding UTFEncoder;
public Aes(byte[] key, byte[] vector)
{
this.Key = key;
this.Vector = vector;
// our encyption method
RijndaelManaged rm = new RijndaelManaged();
rm.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;
// create an encryptor and decyptor using encryption method. key and vector
EncryptorTransform = rm.CreateEncryptor(this.Key, this.Vector);
DecryptorTransform = rm.CreateDecryptor(this.Key, this.Vector);
// used to translate bytes to text and vice versa
UTFEncoder = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
}
/// Encrypt some text and return a string suitable for passing in a URL.
public string EncryptToString(string TextValue)
{
return ByteArrToString(Encrypt(TextValue));
}
/// Encrypt some text and return an encrypted byte array.
public byte[] Encrypt(string TextValue)
{
//Translates our text value into a byte array.
Byte[] bytes = UTFEncoder.GetBytes(TextValue);
Byte[] encrypted = null;
//Used to stream the data in and out of the CryptoStream.
using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
using (CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, EncryptorTransform, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
cs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
encrypted = memoryStream.ToArray();
}
return encrypted;
}
/// The other side: Decryption methods
public string DecryptString(string EncryptedString)
{
return Decrypt(StrToByteArray(EncryptedString));
}
/// Decryption when working with byte arrays.
public string Decrypt(byte[] EncryptedValue)
{
Byte[] decryptedBytes = null;
using (MemoryStream encryptedStream = new MemoryStream())
{
using (CryptoStream decryptStream = new CryptoStream(encryptedStream, DecryptorTransform, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
decryptStream.Write(EncryptedValue, 0, EncryptedValue.Length);
}
decryptedBytes = encryptedStream.ToArray();
}
return UTFEncoder.GetString(decryptedBytes);
}
/// Convert a string to a byte array. NOTE: Normally we'd create a Byte Array from a string using an ASCII encoding (like so).
// System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
// return encoding.GetBytes(str);
// However, this results in character values that cannot be passed in a URL. So, instead, I just
// lay out all of the byte values in a long string of numbers (three per - must pad numbers less than 100).
public byte[] StrToByteArray(string str)
{
if (str.Length == 0)
throw new Exception("Invalid string value in StrToByteArray");
byte val;
byte[] byteArr = new byte[str.Length / 3];
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
do
{
val = byte.Parse(str.Substring(i, 3));
byteArr[j++] = val;
i += 3;
}
while (i < str.Length);
return byteArr;
}
// Same comment as above. Normally the conversion would use an ASCII encoding in the other direction:
// System.Text.ASCIIEncoding enc = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
// return enc.GetString(byteArr);
public string ByteArrToString(byte[] byteArr)
{
byte val;
string tempStr = "";
for (int i = 0; i <= byteArr.GetUpperBound(0); i++)
{
val = byteArr[i];
if (val < (byte)10)
tempStr += "00" + val.ToString();
else if (val < (byte)100)
tempStr += "0" + val.ToString();
else
tempStr += val.ToString();
}
return tempStr;
}
EDIT: Thankyou for all of your help however your answers did not un-cover the problem, which turned out to be something stupidly simple. I was generating an encrypted string on one server and handing it over to a handler on another server for decrpytion and processing, but it turns out that the results of encryption differ when run on different servers, hence the receiving server could not decrypt it. One of the answers stumbled across the hint at this by accident, which is why I accepted it