"Padding is invalid and cannot be removed" -Whats wrong with this code?

Question

Every time I run this and encrypt, the output is variable, and when I attempt to decrypt I get "Padding is invalid and cannot be removed." Been fighting with this for a day or two now and I am at a loss.

    private static string strIV = "abcdefghijklmnmo"; //The initialization vector.
    private static string strKey = "abcdefghijklmnmoabcdefghijklmnmo"; //The key used to encrypt the text.

    public static string Decrypt(string TextToDecrypt)
    {
        return Decryptor(TextToDecrypt);
    }

    private static string Encryptor(string TextToEncrypt)
    {
        //Turn the plaintext into a byte array.
        byte[] PlainTextBytes = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(TextToEncrypt);            

        //Setup the AES providor for our purposes.
        AesCryptoServiceProvider aesProvider = new AesCryptoServiceProvider();
        aesProvider.Key = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strKey);
        aesProvider.IV = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strIV);
        aesProvider.BlockSize = 128;
        aesProvider.KeySize = 256;            
        aesProvider.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;
        aesProvider.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;

        ICryptoTransform cryptoTransform = aesProvider.CreateEncryptor(aesProvider.Key, aesProvider.IV);            
        byte[] EncryptedBytes = cryptoTransform.TransformFinalBlock(PlainTextBytes, 0, PlainTextBytes.Length);
        return Convert.ToBase64String(EncryptedBytes);                        
    }

    private static string Decryptor(string TextToDecrypt)
    {
        byte[] EncryptedBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(TextToDecrypt);

        //Setup the AES provider for decrypting.            
        AesCryptoServiceProvider aesProvider = new AesCryptoServiceProvider();
        aesProvider.Key = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strKey);
        aesProvider.IV = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strIV);
        aesProvider.BlockSize = 128;
        aesProvider.KeySize = 256;            
        aesProvider.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;
        aesProvider.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;

        ICryptoTransform cryptoTransform = aesProvider.CreateDecryptor(aesProvider.Key, aesProvider.IV);
        byte[] DecryptedBytes = cryptoTransform.TransformFinalBlock(EncryptedBytes, 0, EncryptedBytes.Length);
        return System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(DecryptedBytes);
    }
}

Answer 1

Perhaps some of these previous answers on the "padding is invalid" error will be useful to you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2116607/rijndaelmanaged-padding-is-invalid-and-cannot-be-removed-that-only-occurs-when

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309859/padding-is-invalid-and-cannot-be-removed-exception-on-webresource-axd

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/604210/padding-is-invalid-and-cannot-be-removed-using-aesmanaged

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11762/c-cryptographicexception-padding-is-invalid-and-cannot-be-removed

Answer 2

You need to set the BlockSize and the KeySize before you set the Key and the IV. Additionally you should probably be generating a random IV for each message and note that ICryptoTransform implements IDisposable so these objects should be disposed.