Question

I try to write simple application that fetch string and encrypt it.
After I want to get previous string by using decryption algorithm.

AES encryption/decryption will be pretty good

It seems basic but most examples written in other languages but not C. I didn’t find any appropriate example to do that. Please help.

Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 🙂

Answer 1

You will need the following libraries:

   libc.lib
  euser.lib
  libcrypto.lib

Also you will need to install openC Plugin from http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/91d89929-fb8c-4d66-bea0-227e42df9053/Open_C_SDK_Plug-In.html

Here is the source code with explanation comments:

#include <stddef.h>
#include <openssl/rc4.h>
#include <openssl/md5.h>

//#include<filelogger.h>

void openc_encrypt(int len, unsigned char* in, unsigned char* crypted, unsigned char* password, int passlen)
{
   unsigned char digest[MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
   RC4_KEY key;

   MD5(password, passlen, digest);

   RC4_set_key(&key, MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH, digest);
   RC4(&key, len, in, crypted);
}

void openc_decrypt(int len, unsigned char* in, unsigned char* decrypted, unsigned char* password, int passlen)
{
   unsigned char digest[MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
   RC4_KEY key;

   MD5(password, passlen, digest);

   RC4_set_key(&key, MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH, digest);
   RC4(&key, len, in, decrypted);
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

const TInt KMaxTextLen = 100;

_LIT8(KExampleText, "Encrypt this text!");
_LIT8(KPassWord, "secret");

void doExampleL()
    {    
    TBuf8<KMaxTextLen> buffer(KExampleText);

    HBufC8* password = KPassWord().AllocLC();    
    HBufC8* crypted = HBufC8::NewLC(buffer.Size());

    TPtr8 cryptedPtr = crypted->Des();
    cryptedPtr.SetLength(buffer.Size());

    openc_encrypt(buffer.Size(),
              (unsigned char*)buffer.Ptr(),
              (unsigned char*)cryptedPtr.Ptr(),
              (unsigned char*)password->Ptr(),
              password->Size()); 

  //LOGDES16(buffer); //Encrypt this text!
  //LOGDES8(*crypted) ; //Ór›­Â Û¦  }ÖŠ4 b q 

    HBufC8* decrypted = HBufC8::NewLC(buffer.Size());
    TPtr8 decryptedPtr = decrypted->Des();

    buffer.Copy(cryptedPtr);
    decryptedPtr.SetLength(buffer.Size());

    openc_decrypt(buffer.Size(),         
                (unsigned char*)buffer.Ptr(),
                (unsigned char*)decryptedPtr.Ptr(),
                (unsigned char*)password->Ptr(),
                password->Size());

  //LOGDES16(buffer);       //Ór›­Â Û¦  }ÖŠ4 b q 
  //LOGDES8(*decrypted) ; //Encrypt this text!

    CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(3);  //decrypted, crypted, password                   
}

The text in this example has been encrypted with the pass phrase and after that decrypted with the same pass phrase using the example functions openc_encrypt() and openc_decrypt().

Edit

AES Encryption

(credit goes to:abhi)

For AES encryption Please refer to this example: http://saju.net.in/code/misc/openssl_aes.c.txt

The code is detailed enough with comments and if you still need much explanation about the API itself i suggest check out this book Network Security with OpenSSL by Viega/Messier/Chandra (google it you will easily find a pdf of this..) read chapter 6 which is specific to symmetric ciphers using EVP API.. This helped me a lot actually understanding the reasons behind using various functions and structures of EVP.

and if you want to dive deep into the Openssl crypto library, i suggest download the code from the openssl website (the version installed on your machine) and then look in the implementation of EVP and aeh api implementation.