AES Encryption and Decryption in Java - DevGlan
AES Encryption and Decryption in Java - DevGlan
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As we know, there are 2 basic types of encryption - Asymmetric and Symmetric encryption. Random Password Generator Java
Asymmetric encryption such as RSA uses two different keys as public and private keys.
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Here, you can encrypt sensitive information with a public key and a matching private key is
used to decrypt the same. Asymmetric encryption is mostly used when there are 2 different
endpoints are involved such as VPN client and server, SSH, etc.
You can use this online RSA tool to visualize this concept.
AES encryption operates in 2 different modes i.e. - ECB and CBC mode.
To see how AES encryption works in practical, you can check this - AES Encryption Tool
AES Architecture
The input can be of 128 bit or 192 bit or 256 bit and corresponding bit of cipher text is
generated.
But, as a developer behind Edu Jungles reports, if you are selecting 128 bits for encryption,
then the secret key must be of 16 bits long and 24 and 32 bits for 192 and 256 bits of key
size.
ECB(Electronic Code Book) is the simplest encryption mode and does not require IV for
encryption. The input plain text will be divided into blocks and each block will be encrypted
with the key provided and hence identical plain text blocks are encrypted into identical
cipher text blocks.
CBC mode is highly recommended and it requires IV to make each message unique.
Hence, IV is used to randomize the encryption of each similar blocks. So any identical plain
text blocks will be encrypted into disimmilar cipher text blocks. If no IV is entered then
default will be used here for CBC mode and that defaults to a zero based byte[16].
If the same key is used to encrypt all the plain text and if an attacker finds this key then all
the cipher can be decrypted in the similar way. We can use salt and iterations to improve
the encryption process further. In the following example we are using 128 bit encryption key
and the cipher is AES/CBC/PKCS5PADDING
return null;
}
Conclusion
I hope this article served you that you were looking for. If you have anything that you want
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be discussing about interoperability of AES between javascript and java.