RC2 Encryption and Decryption

RC2 encryption. The Chilkat encryption component supports RC2 encryption in both ECB (Electronic Cookbook) and CBC (Cipher-Block Chaining) modes. The key size may range from 8 bits to 1024 bits.

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import sys
import chilkat

crypt = chilkat.CkCrypt2()

success = crypt.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
if (success != True):
    print "Crypt component unlock failed"
    sys.exit()

#  Set the encryption algorithm = "rc2"
crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("rc2")

#  CipherMode may be "ecb" or "cbc"
crypt.put_CipherMode("cbc")

#  KeyLength may range from 8 bits to 1024 bits
crypt.put_KeyLength(128)

#  RC2 also has an effective key length property
#  which can also range from 8 bits to 1024 bits:
crypt.put_Rc2EffectiveKeyLength(128)

#  The padding scheme determines the contents of the bytes
#  that are added to pad the result to a multiple of the
#  encryption algorithm's block size.  RC2 has a block
#  size of 8 bytes, so encrypted output is always
#  a multiple of 8.
crypt.put_PaddingScheme(0)

#  EncodingMode specifies the encoding of the output for
#  encryption, and the input for decryption.
#  It may be "hex", "url", "base64", or "quoted-printable".
crypt.put_EncodingMode("hex")

#  An initialization vector is required if using CBC mode.
#  ECB mode does not use an IV.
#  The length of the IV is equal to the algorithm's block size.
#  It is NOT equal to the length of the key.
ivHex = "0001020304050607"
crypt.SetEncodedIV(ivHex,"hex")

#  The secret key must equal the size of the key.
#  For 128-bit encryption, the binary secret key is 16 bytes.
keyHex = "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F101112131415161718191A1B1C1D1E1F"
crypt.SetEncodedKey(keyHex,"hex")

#  Encrypt a string...
#  The input string is 44 ANSI characters (i.e. 44 bytes), so
#  the output should be 48 bytes (a multiple of 8).
#  Because the output is a hex string, it should
#  be 96 characters long (2 chars per byte).
encStr = crypt.encryptStringENC("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.")
print encStr

#  Now decrypt:
decStr = crypt.decryptStringENC(encStr)
print decStr