Well, I have a code that selects a text, and converts it to NSData then encrypts it with AES-256 and then converts this NSData to a NSString to be displayed the message encrypted, I'm doing this as follows:
NSString *text = @"This is a simple text";
NSData* data = [text dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSData *dataEnc = [data AES256EncryptWithKey:@"12556"];
NSString *stringCrypt = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataEnc encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSData *dataDesc = [dataEnc AES256DecryptWithKey:@"12556"];
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataDesc encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"Text normal -> %@",text);
NSLog(@"Text with AES -> %@",stringCrypt);
NSLog(@"Text with AES decrypted -> %@",string);
The output of my NSLog is:
Text normal -> this is a simple text
Text with AES -> (null)
Text With AES decrypted -> this is a simple text
So the problem is with the code:
NSString *stringCrypt = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataEnc encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
That return a null string, and in this case I need that string that will be inserted into a text file, how to solve this problem? why this returning a null value?
EDIT
The function to convert it to AES256 is:
- (NSData *)AES256EncryptWithKey:(NSString *)key {
// 'key' should be 32 bytes for AES256, will be null-padded otherwise
char keyPtr[kCCKeySizeAES256+1]; // room for terminator (unused)
bzero(keyPtr, sizeof(keyPtr)); // fill with zeroes (for padding)
// fetch key data
[key getCString:keyPtr maxLength:sizeof(keyPtr) encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSUInteger dataLength = [self length];
//See the doc: For block ciphers, the output size will always be less than or
//equal to the input size plus the size of one block.
//That's why we need to add the size of one block here
size_t bufferSize = dataLength + kCCBlockSizeAES128;
void *buffer = malloc(bufferSize);
size_t numBytesEncrypted = 0;
CCCryptorStatus cryptStatus = CCCrypt(kCCEncrypt, kCCAlgorithmAES128, kCCOptionPKCS7Padding,
keyPtr, kCCKeySizeAES256,
NULL /* initialization vector (optional) */,
[self bytes], dataLength, /* input */
buffer, bufferSize, /* output */
&numBytesEncrypted);
if (cryptStatus == kCCSuccess) {
//the returned NSData takes ownership of the buffer and will free it on deallocation
return [NSData dataWithBytesNoCopy:buffer length:numBytesEncrypted];
}
free(buffer); //free the buffer;
return nil;
}
Solved
As the user Zaph says, I need to use the -base64EncodedDataWithOptions
, in my case I do as follows:
NSString *text = @"This is a simple text";
NSData* data = [text dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSData *dataEnc = [data AES256EncryptWithKey:@"12556"];
NSData *daes = [dataEnc base64EncodedDataWithOptions:NSDataBase64Encoding64CharacterLineLength];
NSString *stringCrypt = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:daes encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSData *decodedData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBase64EncodedString:stringCrypt options:0];
NSData *dataDesc = [decodedData AES256DecryptWithKey:@"12556"];
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataDesc encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"Text Normal -> %@",text);
NSLog(@"Text with AES (BASE64) -> %@",stringCrypt);
NSLog(@"Text with AES decrypted -> %@",string);
In this case I only need to convert it to a base64 string, and now I can store this values inside a text value, and other device can get this text and decrypt. Thanks for all.