How to do AES256 decryption in PHP? - php

Question

I have an encrypted bit of text that I need to decrypt. It's encrypted with AES-256-CBC. I have the encrypted text, key, and iv. However, no matter what I try I just can't seem to get it to work.
The internet has suggested that mcrypt's Rijndael cypher should be able to do this, so here's what I have now:
function decrypt_data($data, $iv, $key) {
$cypher = mcrypt_module_open(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, '', MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, '');
// initialize encryption handle
if (mcrypt_generic_init($cypher, $key, $iv) != -1) {
// decrypt
$decrypted = mdecrypt_generic($cypher, $data);
// clean up
mcrypt_generic_deinit($cypher);
mcrypt_module_close($cypher);
return $decrypted;
}
return false;
}
As it stands now I get 2 warnings and the output is gibberish:
Warning: mcrypt_generic_init() [function.mcrypt-generic-init]: Key size too large; supplied length: 64, max: 32 in /var/www/includes/function.decrypt_data.php on line 8
Warning: mcrypt_generic_init() [function.mcrypt-generic-init]: Iv size incorrect; supplied length: 32, needed: 16 in /var/www/includes/function.decrypt_data.php on line 8
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm not terribly familiar with this stuff, but it seems like trying MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256 in place of MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128 would be an obvious next step...
Edit: You're right -- this isn't what you need. MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128 is in fact the right choice. According to the link you provided, your key and IV are twice as long as they should be:
// How do you do 256-bit AES encryption in PHP vs. 128-bit AES encryption???
// The answer is: Give it a key that's 32 bytes long as opposed to 16 bytes long.
// For example:
$key256 = '12345678901234561234567890123456';
$key128 = '1234567890123456';
// Here's our 128-bit IV which is used for both 256-bit and 128-bit keys.
$iv = '1234567890123456';

Answer 2

I send to you one example,
Please, check the code, ok
$data_to_encrypt = "2~1~000024~0910~20130723092446~T~00002000~USD~F~375019001012120~0~0~00000000000~";
$key128 = "abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789";
$iv = "0000000000000000";
$cc = $data_to_encrypt;
$key = $key128;
$iv = $iv;
$length = strlen($cc);
$cipher = mcrypt_module_open(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128,'','cbc','');
mcrypt_generic_init($cipher, $key, $iv);
$encrypted = base64_encode(mcrypt_generic($cipher,$cc));
mcrypt_generic_deinit($cipher);
mcrypt_generic_init($cipher, $key, $iv);
$decrypted = mdecrypt_generic($cipher,base64_decode($encrypted));
mcrypt_generic_deinit($cipher);
echo "encrypted: " . $encrypted;
echo "<br/>";
echo "length:".strlen($encrypted);
echo "<br/>";
echo "decrypted: " . substr($decrypted, 0, $length);