What are some of the simplest ways to AES encrypt and decrypt a 16 byte array without the automatic padding? I have found solutions that use external libraries, but I want to avoid that if possible.
My current code is
SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(getCryptoKeyByteArray(length=16)); // 128 bits
Cipher encryptor = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
encryptor.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, skeySpec);
byte[] encrypted = encryptor.doFinal(plain);
How can I prevent the padding? The plain data is always fixed length and includes its own padding. How can I allow plain to be 16 bytes without causing encrypted to become 32 bytes?
解决方案
See my comment. Sorry I probably should have taken a closer look the first time.
Change "AES" to "AES/CBC/NoPadding"
Change decryptor.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, skeySpec); to decryptor.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, skeySpec, encryptor.gerParameters());
To encrypt only 16 bytes of data, fixed length, using a method that requires no initialization vector to be saved, Change "AES" to "AES/ECB/NoPadding"
I pick ECB because that is the default.
If you need to encrypt more than 16 bytes, consider using something other than ECB, which suffers a certain repetition detection flaw
In this bitmap example, this image has repeated white blocks, so you can deduce the outline of the image simply by looking for where the blocks become different.
If you are only encrypting one block, it doesn't really matter though, only if you are encrypting multiple blocks that are combined does ECB become revealing.