Perl Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.67+

AES and CHACHA20 Encrypt/Decrypt Text

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Demonstrates the use of the EncryptSb and DecryptSb methods to encrypt/decrypt the contents of StringBuilder objects. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

# First build a string to be encrypted
my $sb = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;
my $i = 1;
while ($i < 10) {
    $sb->AppendInt($i);
    $sb->Append(" the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.\r\n");
    $i = $i + 1;
}

print $sb->GetAsString(), "\n";

# The string to be encrypted looks like this:

# 1 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
# 2 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
# 3 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
# 4 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
# 5 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
# 6 the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
# ...

my $crypt = Chilkat2::Crypt2->new;

# Specify the encryption to be used.
# First we'll do AES-128 CBC
$crypt->CryptAlgorithm('aes');
$crypt->CipherMode('cbc');
$crypt->KeyLength(128);

my $ivHex = '000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F';
$crypt->SetEncodedIV($ivHex, 'hex');

my $keyHex = '000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F101112131415161718191A1B1C1D1E1F';
$crypt->SetEncodedKey($keyHex, 'hex');

# When EncryptSb is called, the contents of the source (sb)
# remains unmodified.  The encrypted bytes are written into bdEncrypted.
# If bdEncrypted already contained data, it is replaced with the encrypted bytes.
my $bdEncrypted = Chilkat2::BinData->new;
my $success = $crypt->EncryptSb($sb, $bdEncrypted);
if (!$success) {
    print $crypt->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Examine the encrypted bytes:
print $bdEncrypted->GetEncoded('base64_mime'), "\n";

# Sample encrypted data:

# 0DdNZ22ckMMJBiaKhAu3wUEfh16XW356NIUsDmNs/xwbHe/p1201OmpfzwXwKktkAefu2pckrBgC
# df+1w8lRo+KAy5n5wlAgMGM/UrsVJsp0BmDPk1vaxKrmrGpSXOVCQs1n2+0atIs5YLiOG+Va3+Mi
# EQNb4YK7bNMmvt0++irBxTiGnkx/RncfKwgkbBUpl2x7yV13MW6lapDT6Md0DKAMsTXFJYGeIdEf
# g2uxDDQzI5gUOUHTMrXQ8paD/K76KKB9Jpp/kAM9z8g/d8KUmuphA7KI64d38xsgOmcITlbhlCQ2
# PDkcU6RRzX0FUTUSMgQukhy0jkLZEjHX9poKJD+iJTOkcQUC3OqR9hKhSrvIgJN4lxdR71MheOoQ
# 2wmvRdq+agTWWh333Vmb6J6yDV79aSpnqEDrA8Ks7Xzciol0gve91+JtVJlJKjWwEzWEU8GxF7Q8
# eaWI70lsC5nTLGcbqgKu6gzkzHlHyHaE2FAQA/d5I2dvfsAYUQCza0Zdyw8mmTtHhlP2Tfxj1uPv
# H4Q7BGuKnx3SWT2CnpbX4091w7KzLAztrbFBo/Tf9w8ZpgTK9k1ryfW9/xnk6rW6iQ==

# Decrypt to restore back to the original:
my $sbOriginal = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;
$success = $crypt->DecryptSb($bdEncrypted, $sbOriginal);
if (!$success) {
    print $crypt->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Examine the original data:
print $sbOriginal->GetAsString(), "\n";

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# To do chacha20 encryption, just change the settings:

$crypt->CryptAlgorithm('chacha20');
$crypt->KeyLength(256);
# The initial count is the initial block counter for the chacha20 algorithm.
# It can be any integer, but must be set to the same when decrypting.
$crypt->InitialCount(22);

# EncryptSb completely replaces the contents of bdEncrypted.
$success = $crypt->EncryptSb($sb, $bdEncrypted);

# However.. DecryptSb appends the decrypted text to whatever may
# have already existed within sbOriginal.
$success = $crypt->DecryptSb($bdEncrypted, $sbOriginal);

print "----\n";
print "The original data should be here twice.  Once from the AES decrypt, and again from the chacha20 decrypt.\n";
print $sbOriginal->GetAsString(), "\n";
print "Success.\n";