Using hybrid encryption/decryption

From:
Susanne Kaufmann <susikaufmann2003@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
18 Apr 2007 06:49:34 -0700
Message-ID:
<1176904174.869596.297590@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
Hello, I generated a RSA-keypair. Each key has been base64-encoded, so
I can save it easily as string into a database (and/or file).

When I am now encrypting a file, I use AES, and after that I wrap the
AES-key with the RSA publickey. The wrapped-Key gets base64-encoded,
too.

My problem is, that I cannot get key back (I think). The error message
I get is "java.security.InvalidKeyException: unknown block type". I
looked for it, and I found some information, that this is a hint to a
wrong key.

One thing I figured out is, that the size of my unwrapped key is too
big (a bytes/bit msitake? ).

Here is my code:

Key-Generation extract:

File publicKeyFile = new File(args[1]);
File privateKeyFile = new File(args[2]);
KeyPairGenerator pairgen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA", "BC");
SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
pairgen.initialize(KEYSIZE, random);
KeyPair keyPair = pairgen.generateKeyPair();
Base64 b64 = new Base64();
String keyPub = new
String(b64.encode(keyPair.getPublic().getEncoded()),"ASCII");
String keyPri = new
String(b64.encode(keyPair.getPrivate().getEncoded()),"ASCII");

File-encryption:

public String encrypt(FileInputStream fis, FileOutputStream fos, int
contactID)
{
  Key publicKey =null;
  SecretKey innerKey = null;
  String keyForDB ="";
  try
    {
    KeyGenerator keygen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
    SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
    keygen.init(128, random);
    innerKey = keygen.generateKey();
    // get recipients publicKey from database
    String keyBlob = db.getPublicKey(contactID);
    byte[] publicBytes = b64.decode(keyBlob.getBytes());
    X509EncodedKeySpec keySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(publicBytes);
    try{
      KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA","BC");
      publicKey = (Key)keyFactory.generatePublic(keySpec);
    }
    catch(NoSuchAlgorithmException e){}
    catch(InvalidKeySpecException e){
    e.printStackTrace();
  }

  Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA/NONE/PKCS1PADDING","BC");
  cipher.init(Cipher.WRAP_MODE, publicKey);
  byte[] wrappedKey = cipher.wrap(innerKey);
  keyForDB = new String(b64.encode(wrappedKey),"ASCII");
  DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(fos);

  InputStream in = fis;
  cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS7Padding","BC");
  cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, innerKey);
  crypt(in, out, cipher);
  in.close();
  out.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
  e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (GeneralSecurityException e)
{
  e.printStackTrace();
}
return keyForDB;
}

File Decryption:

public void decrypt(File file, FileOutputStream fos, String
wrappedKey)
{
  try
    {
    byte[] wrappedKeyBytes = b64.decode(wrappedKey.getBytes());
    DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(new
FileInputStream(file));
    String keyString = readFileAsString("keys/privatekey");
    byte[] privateKeyBytes = b64.decode(new
String(keyString).getBytes());
    PKCS8EncodedKeySpec encKeySpec = new
PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(privateKeyBytes);
    KeyFactory keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA", "BC");
    Key privateKey = keyFactory.generatePrivate(encKeySpec);
    Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA/NONE/PKCS1PADDING",
"BC");
    cipher.init(Cipher.UNWRAP_MODE, privateKey);
    SecretKey key = (SecretKey)cipher.unwrap(wrappedKeyBytes, "AES",
Cipher.SECRET_KEY);
    OutputStream out = fos;
    cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS7Padding", "BC");
    cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key);
    crypt(in, out, cipher);
    in.close();
    out.close();
  }
  catch (IOException e)
  {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
  catch (GeneralSecurityException e)
  {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
}

Thank you for any help,

Susanne

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