Lua

AES 256-bit CBC using PBKDF2 Generated Secret Key

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First generates a 32-byte secret key using PBKDF2 (with HMAC-SHA256), and then uses the secret key to do 256-bit AES CBC mode decryption.

(Duplicates the following Java code)

public String decrypt(String strToDecrypt) {
        try  {
            // Read the initialization vector from the first bytes for the data
            byte [] rawData = Base64.getDecoder().decode(strToDecrypt);
            byte [] iv = new byte[Config.get().encryptionIVLength()];
            byte [] encryptedData = new byte[rawData.length - iv.length];
            System.arraycopy(rawData, 0, iv, 0, iv.length);
            System.arraycopy(rawData, iv.length, encryptedData, 0, encryptedData.length);
 
            IvParameterSpec ivspec = new IvParameterSpec(iv);
 
            SecretKeyFactory factory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA256");
            KeySpec spec = new PBEKeySpec(secretKey.toCharArray(), salt.getBytes(), 65536, 256);
            SecretKey tmp = factory.generateSecret(spec);
            SecretKeySpec secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(tmp.getEncoded(), "AES");
 
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5PADDING");
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, secretKey, ivspec);
            return new String(cipher.doFinal(encryptedData));
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            log.error("Could not decrypt the string.", e);
        }
        return null;
    }

Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

local crypt = chilkat.Crypt2.new()

local password = "some arbitrary length password"
-- We have 8 bytes of salt encoded using hex.
-- (The salt can be any number of bytes, in any desired encoding such as base64, hex, etc.)
local saltHex = "0102030405060708"

-- Generate the 256-bit (32-byte) AES secret key we'll use to decrypt.
local iterationCount = 65536
local outputKeyBitLen = 256
local secretKeyHex = crypt:pbkdf2(password, "utf-8", "sha256", saltHex, iterationCount, outputKeyBitLen, "hex")

-- Setup for 256-bit AES CBC decryption.
crypt.crypt_algorithm = "aes"
crypt.key_length = 256
crypt.cipher_mode = "cbc"
crypt.padding_scheme = 0

-- The IV for AES is 16 bytes.
local iv = "000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F"
crypt:set_encoded_iv(iv, "hex")

-- Set the secret key for 256-bit AES.
crypt:set_encoded_key(secretKeyHex, "hex")

-- AES decrypt
-- assume our string to decrypt is base64
local strToDecrypt = "...."
crypt.encoding_mode = "base64"
local decryptedStr = crypt:decrypt_string_enc(strToDecrypt)

print(decryptedStr)