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How do i encrypt and decrypt files with PyCryptodome? (RSA)

I'm trying to encrypt and decrypt a file with PyCryptodome but without success. I can encrypt strings and data just fine but when trying to encrypt files it fails. I have 2 problems, first is that I can't encrypt larger strings. Witch i tried to solve by reading the file with a buffer. Second is that when I try to encrypt it as smaller buffers it just gives me an error "raise ValueError("Ciphertext with incorrect length.")"
My code looks like this:
from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP
import binascii
import ast
file_to_encrypt = "file_example_MP3_700KB.mp3"
buffer_size = 65536 # 64kb
input_file = open(file_to_encrypt, "rb")
output_file = open(file_to_encrypt + ".encrypted", "wb")
# Import keys
pub = open("publickey.txt", "rb")
pubKey = RSA.importKey(pub.read())
pub.close()
priv = open("privatekey.txt", "rb")
keyPair = RSA.importKey(priv.read())
priv.close()
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# Encrypt
encryptor = PKCS1_OAEP.new(pubKey)
buffer = input_file.read(buffer_size)
while len(buffer) > 0:
encrypted = encryptor.encrypt(buffer)
output_file.write(encrypted)
buffer = input_file.read(buffer_size)
input_file.close()
output_file.close()
# --------------------------------------------------------------
input_file = open(file_to_encrypt + ".encrypted", "rb")
output_file = open(file_to_encrypt + ".decrypted", "wb")
# Decrypt
decryptor = PKCS1_OAEP.new(keyPair)
buffer = input_file.read(buffer_size)
while len(buffer) > 0:
decrypted = decryptor.decrypt(ast.literal_eval(str(buffer)))
output_file.write(decrypted)
buffer = input_file.read(buffer_size)
input_file.close()
output_file.close()
# --------------------------------------------------------------
And generating the keys looks like this:
from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP
import binascii
import ast
# key generation
keyPair = RSA.generate(3072*2)
pubKey = keyPair.publickey()
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# Export keys
pub = open("publickey.txt", "wb")
pub.write(pubKey.exportKey('PEM'))
pub.close()
priv = open("privatekey.txt", "wb")
priv.write(keyPair.exportKey('PEM'))
priv.close()
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# Import keys
pub = open("publickey.txt", "rb")
pubKey = RSA.importKey(pub.read())
pub.close()
priv = open("privatekey.txt", "rb")
keyPair = RSA.importKey(priv.read())
priv.close()
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# encryption
msg = '550011'
encryptor = PKCS1_OAEP.new(pubKey)
encrypted = encryptor.encrypt(msg.encode())
# --------------------------------------------------------------
# decryption
decryptor = PKCS1_OAEP.new(keyPair)
decrypted = str(decryptor.decrypt(ast.literal_eval(str(encrypted))))[2:-1]
# --------------------------------------------------------------
print("Encrypted:", binascii.hexlify(encrypted))
print("Decrypted:", decrypted)
if msg == decrypted:
print("PASSED!")
else:
print("FAILED!")
Changing buffer_size fixes the first problem (that the data I'm trying to encrypt is too large.)
But I still can't decrypt my file after encrypting it.
Generating and importing keys works just fine. And encrypting and decrypting with them works just fine as well. As long as I'm only encrypting small strings and not files.

Problem while decrypting a file with AES, gives Data must be padded to 16 byte boundary in CBC mode

Hi I'm programming a basic project about Shamir Secret Sharing but I having a problem while decrypting a file.
I'm using AES to encrypt and decrypt
My code to encrypt:
def encrypt_text(self, text):
pad_text = pad(text, AES.block_size)
iv = Random.new().read(AES.block_size)
password = self.alphanumric_pass(self.key)
cipher = AES.new(password, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
return iv + cipher.encrypt(pad_text)
def encrypt_file(self):
try:
with open(self.file, 'rb') as f:
orig_file = f.read()
enc_text = self.encrypt_text(orig_file)
except:
print("The file: " + str(self.file) + " does not exist")
sys.exit(1)
return enc_text
def save_encrypted_file(self, out_name):
with open(self.file + ".aes", 'wb') as f:
f.write(self.encrypt_file())
def alphanumric_pass(self, key):
num = str(key)
return hashlib.sha256(num.encode('utf8')).digest()
My code to decrypt:
def decrypt_text(self, text, key):
iv = text[:AES.block_size]
password = self.alphanumric_pass(key)
cipher = AES.new(password, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
decrypted_text = unpad(cipher.decrypt(text[AES.block_size:]), AES.block_size)
return decrypted_text
def decipher_file(self):
try:
with open(self.file, 'rb') as f:
encrypted_file = f.read()
except:
print("There was an error while reading " + str(self.file))
secret = self.get_secret()
num = str(secret)
key = hashlib.sha256(num.encode('utf-8')).digest()
decrypted_text = self.decrypt_text(encrypted_file, key)
return decrypted_text
def get_secret(self):
return LagrangeInterpolation.reconstruct_secret(self.shares, 0)
def save_decrypted_file(self, new_name):
with open(new_name, 'wb') as f:
f.write(self.decipher_file())
But when I'm trying to decrypt a file I get this error:
File "/home/david/Documentos/Modelado_Y_Programacion/Shamir-Secret-Share-Scheme/s4/Decrypter.py", line 38, in decrypt_text
decrypted_text = unpad(cipher.decrypt(text[AES.block_size:]), AES.block_size)
File "/home/david/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Crypto/Cipher/_mode_cbc.py", line 246, in decrypt
raise ValueError("Data must be padded to %d byte boundary in CBC mode" % self.block_size)
ValueError: Data must be padded to 16 byte boundary in CBC mode
Can someone help fix this error? I have been hours searching how to fix it, but can't find anything

Python3 - Encrypting and decrypting an image (Fernet) Issue

Good day,
I am doing an assignment for cryptography. It's an easy task I need to take any image, turn it into HEX, encrypt it and then decrypt it.
As I am working in Python and there was no specific encryption method in the task I just use Fernet.
I have an encryptor and decryptor scripts.
Encryption seems to be working because as a test I create a txt document with original HEX and after decryption the program states that original HEX and decrypted one are the same, however the decrypted image is not loading.
Could anyone help out a newbie?
Encryptor:
import binascii
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
img = 'panda.png'
with open(img, 'rb') as f:
content = f.read()
hexValue = binascii.hexlify(content)
key = Fernet.generate_key()
with open('info/key.txt', mode='w+') as keyValue:
keyValue.write(key)
keyValue.seek(0)
f = Fernet(key)
encHexVal = f.encrypt(hexValue)
with open('info/encryptedHex.txt', mode='w+') as hexValueFile:
hexValueFile.write(encHexVal)
hexValueFile.seek(0)
a = f.decrypt(encHexVal)
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='w+') as writeHex:
originalHex = writeHex.write(hexValue)
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='r') as reading:
realValue = reading.read()
if realValue == a:
print("We're good to go!")
else:
print("Oops something went wrong. Check the source code.")
Decryptor:
import binascii
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
with open('info/key.txt', mode='rb') as keyValue:
key = keyValue.read()
f = Fernet(key)
with open('info/encryptedHex.txt', mode='rb') as imageHexValue:
hexValue = imageHexValue.read()
a = f.decrypt(hexValue)
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='r') as compare:
realContents = compare.read()
print("Small test in safe environment...")
if realContents == a:
print("All good!")
else:
print("Something is wrong...")
data = a.encode()
data = data.strip()
data = data.replace(' ', '')
data = data.replace('\n', '')
with open('newImage.png', 'wb') as file:
file.write(data)
I am using a random image from the internet of Po from Kung Fu Panda:

The principle problem is that although you hexlify then encrypt in the encryptor you don't unhexlify after decrypting in the decryptor. Its far more common to do things the other way, encrypt then hexlify so that the encrypted binary can be stored in regular text files or sent via http.
You have several problems with trying to write bytes objects to files open in text. I fixed those along the way. But it does leave me puzzled why a file called 'info/encryptedHex.txt' would be binary.
Encryptor
import binascii
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
# Generate keyfile
#
# TODO: Overwrites key file on each run, invalidating previous
# saves. You could do `if not os.path.exists('info/key.txt'):`
key = Fernet.generate_key()
with open('info/key.txt', mode='wb') as keyValue:
keyValue.write(key)
# Encrypt image
img = 'panda.png'
with open(img, 'rb') as f:
content = f.read()
hexValue = binascii.hexlify(content)
f = Fernet(key)
encHexVal = f.encrypt(hexValue)
with open('info/encryptedHex.txt', mode='wb') as hexValueFile:
hexValueFile.write(encHexVal)
# Verification checks
a = f.decrypt(encHexVal)
# hexed bytes is same encoding as 'ascii'
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='wb') as writeHex:
originalHex = writeHex.write(hexValue)
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='r', encoding='ascii') as reading:
realValue = reading.read()
if realValue == a.decode('ascii'):
print("We're good to go!")
else:
print("Oops something went wrong. Check the source code.")
Decryptor
import binascii
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
# Generate keyfile
#
# TODO: Overwrites key file on each run, invalidating previous
# saves. You could do `if not os.path.exists('info/key.txt'):`
key = Fernet.generate_key()
with open('info/key.txt', mode='wb') as keyValue:
keyValue.write(key)
# Encrypt image
img = 'panda.png'
with open(img, 'rb') as f:
content = f.read()
hexValue = binascii.hexlify(content)
f = Fernet(key)
encHexVal = f.encrypt(hexValue)
with open('info/encryptedHex.txt', mode='wb') as hexValueFile:
hexValueFile.write(encHexVal)
# Verification checks
a = f.decrypt(encHexVal)
# hexed bytes is same encoding as 'ascii'
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='wb') as writeHex:
originalHex = writeHex.write(hexValue)
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='r', encoding='ascii') as reading:
realValue = reading.read()
if realValue == a.decode('ascii'):
print("We're good to go!")
else:
print("Oops something went wrong. Check the source code.")
(base) td#timpad:~/dev/SO/Encrypting and decrypting in image$ cat de.py
import binascii
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
with open('info/key.txt', mode='rb') as keyValue:
key = keyValue.read()
f = Fernet(key)
with open('info/encryptedHex.txt', mode='rb') as imageHexValue:
encHexValue = imageHexValue.read()
hexValue = f.decrypt(encHexValue)
binValue = binascii.unhexlify(hexValue)
with open('info/realValue.txt', mode='rb') as compare:
realContents = compare.read()
print("Small test in safe environment...")
if realContents == hexValue:
print("All good!")
else:
print("Something is wrong...")
with open('newImage.png', 'wb') as file:
file.write(binValue)

pycrypto: unable to decrypt file

I am using PKCS1_OAEP crypto algorithm to encrypt a file. The file is encrypted successfully but unable to decrypt file, getting the error "Ciphertext with incorrect length."
Encryption Algorithm is here:
#!/usr/bin/python
from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
import zlib
import base64
fd = open('test.doc', 'rb')
message = fd.read()
fd.close()
print "[*] Original File Size: %d" % len(message)
#message = 'To be encrypted'
key = RSA.importKey(open('pubkey.der').read())
cipher = PKCS1_OAEP.new(key)
compressed = zlib.compress(message)
print "[*] Compressed File Size: %d" % len(compressed)
chunk_size = 128
ciphertext = ""
offset = 0
while offset < len(compressed):
chunk = compressed[offset:offset+chunk_size]
if len(chunk) % chunk_size != 0:
chunk += " " * (chunk_size - len(chunk)) # Padding with spaces
ciphertext += cipher.encrypt(chunk)
offset += chunk_size
print "[*] Encrypted File Size: %d" % len(ciphertext)
encoded = ciphertext.encode("base64")
print "[*] Encoded file size: %d" % len(encoded)
fd = open("enc.data", 'wb')
fd.write(encoded)
fd.close()
print "[+] File saved successfully!"
Decryption Algorithm is here:
#!/usr/bin/python
from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
import zlib
import base64
key = RSA.importKey(open('privkey.der').read())
cipher = PKCS1_OAEP.new(key)
fd = open('enc.data', 'rb')
encoded = fd.read().strip('\n')
fd.close()
decoded = encoded.decode("base64")
chunk_size = 128
offset = 0
plaintext = ""
while offset < len(decoded):
plaintext += cipher.decrypt(decoded[offset:offset+chunk_size])
offset += chunk_size
#plaintext = cipher.decrypt(decoded)
decompress = zlib.decompress(plaintext)
fd = open('decr.doc', 'wb')
fd.write(decompress)
fd.close()
Using the following script to generate key
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
new_key = RSA.generate(2048, e=65537)
public_key = new_key.publickey().exportKey("PEM")
private_key = new_key.exportKey("PEM")
fileWrite(fileName, data):
fd = open(fileName, 'wb')
fd.write(data)
fd.close()
fileWrite('privkey.der', private_key)
fileWrite('pubkey.der', public_key)
Here is the Error Message

You encrypt with a 2048 bit RSA key, which gives encrypted blocks of 2048 bites (256 bytes). Your decrypt implementation assumes the encrypted blocks are 128 bytes where they are actually 256 bytes, and thus you get the 'incorrect length' error. Notice how your encrypted files size (64512) is more than double of the compressed file size (32223).
In general you would not use RSA for bulk encryption (as it's quite slow) but would instead combine it with a symmetric encryption like AES. You would then encrypt the data with a random AES key, and then encrypt the AES key with the RSA key. This way you get the speed of AES and the two keys of RSA. This is known as Hybrid Encryption.

RSA encryption and decryption in Python

I need help using RSA encryption and decryption in Python.
I am creating a private/public key pair, encrypting a message with keys and writing message to a file. Then I am reading ciphertext from file and decrypting text using key.
I am having trouble with the decryption portion. As you can see in my code below, when I put in decrypted = key.decrypt(message) that the program works, yet the decrypted message is encrypted again. It seems like it is not reading the ciphertext from the file.
Can anyone help me write this code so decryption reads ciphertext from file and then uses key to decrypt ciphertext?
import Crypto
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
from Crypto import Random
random_generator = Random.new().read
key = RSA.generate(1024, random_generator) #generate public and private keys
publickey = key.publickey # pub key export for exchange
encrypted = publickey.encrypt('encrypt this message', 32)
#message to encrypt is in the above line 'encrypt this message'
print 'encrypted message:', encrypted #ciphertext
f = open ('encryption.txt', 'w'w)
f.write(str(encrypted)) #write ciphertext to file
f.close()
#decrypted code below
f = open ('encryption.txt', 'r')
message = f.read()
decrypted = key.decrypt(message)
print 'decrypted', decrypted
f = open ('encryption.txt', 'w')
f.write(str(message))
f.write(str(decrypted))
f.close()

In order to make it work you need to convert key from str to tuple before decryption(ast.literal_eval function). Here is fixed code:
import Crypto
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
from Crypto import Random
import ast
random_generator = Random.new().read
key = RSA.generate(1024, random_generator) #generate pub and priv key
publickey = key.publickey() # pub key export for exchange
encrypted = publickey.encrypt('encrypt this message', 32)
#message to encrypt is in the above line 'encrypt this message'
print('encrypted message:', encrypted) #ciphertext
f = open ('encryption.txt', 'w')
f.write(str(encrypted)) #write ciphertext to file
f.close()
#decrypted code below
f = open('encryption.txt', 'r')
message = f.read()
decrypted = key.decrypt(ast.literal_eval(str(encrypted)))
print('decrypted', decrypted)
f = open ('encryption.txt', 'w')
f.write(str(message))
f.write(str(decrypted))
f.close()

PKCS#1 OAEP is an asymmetric cipher based on RSA and the OAEP padding
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
from Crypto import Random
from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP
def rsa_encrypt_decrypt():
key = RSA.generate(2048)
private_key = key.export_key('PEM')
public_key = key.publickey().exportKey('PEM')
message = input('plain text for RSA encryption and decryption:')
message = str.encode(message)
rsa_public_key = RSA.importKey(public_key)
rsa_public_key = PKCS1_OAEP.new(rsa_public_key)
encrypted_text = rsa_public_key.encrypt(message)
#encrypted_text = b64encode(encrypted_text)
print('your encrypted_text is : {}'.format(encrypted_text))
rsa_private_key = RSA.importKey(private_key)
rsa_private_key = PKCS1_OAEP.new(rsa_private_key)
decrypted_text = rsa_private_key.decrypt(encrypted_text)
print('your decrypted_text is : {}'.format(decrypted_text))

# coding: utf-8
from __future__ import unicode_literals
import base64
import os
import six
from Crypto import Random
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
class PublicKeyFileExists(Exception): pass
class RSAEncryption(object):
PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PATH = None
PUBLIC_KEY_FILE_PATH = None
def encrypt(self, message):
public_key = self._get_public_key()
public_key_object = RSA.importKey(public_key)
random_phrase = 'M'
encrypted_message = public_key_object.encrypt(self._to_format_for_encrypt(message), random_phrase)[0]
# use base64 for save encrypted_message in database without problems with encoding
return base64.b64encode(encrypted_message)
def decrypt(self, encoded_encrypted_message):
encrypted_message = base64.b64decode(encoded_encrypted_message)
private_key = self._get_private_key()
private_key_object = RSA.importKey(private_key)
decrypted_message = private_key_object.decrypt(encrypted_message)
return six.text_type(decrypted_message, encoding='utf8')
def generate_keys(self):
"""Be careful rewrite your keys"""
random_generator = Random.new().read
key = RSA.generate(1024, random_generator)
private, public = key.exportKey(), key.publickey().exportKey()
if os.path.isfile(self.PUBLIC_KEY_FILE_PATH):
raise PublicKeyFileExists('Файл с публичным ключом существует. Удалите ключ')
self.create_directories()
with open(self.PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PATH, 'w') as private_file:
private_file.write(private)
with open(self.PUBLIC_KEY_FILE_PATH, 'w') as public_file:
public_file.write(public)
return private, public
def create_directories(self, for_private_key=True):
public_key_path = self.PUBLIC_KEY_FILE_PATH.rsplit('/', 1)
if not os.path.exists(public_key_path):
os.makedirs(public_key_path)
if for_private_key:
private_key_path = self.PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PATH.rsplit('/', 1)
if not os.path.exists(private_key_path):
os.makedirs(private_key_path)
def _get_public_key(self):
"""run generate_keys() before get keys """
with open(self.PUBLIC_KEY_FILE_PATH, 'r') as _file:
return _file.read()
def _get_private_key(self):
"""run generate_keys() before get keys """
with open(self.PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PATH, 'r') as _file:
return _file.read()
def _to_format_for_encrypt(self, value):
if isinstance(value, int):
return six.binary_type(value)
for str_type in six.string_types:
if isinstance(value, str_type):
return value.encode('utf8')
if isinstance(value, six.binary_type):
return value
And use
KEYS_DIRECTORY = settings.SURVEY_DIR_WITH_ENCRYPTED_KEYS
class TestingEncryption(RSAEncryption):
PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PATH = KEYS_DIRECTORY + 'private.key'
PUBLIC_KEY_FILE_PATH = KEYS_DIRECTORY + 'public.key'
# django/flask
from django.core.files import File
class ProductionEncryption(RSAEncryption):
PUBLIC_KEY_FILE_PATH = settings.SURVEY_DIR_WITH_ENCRYPTED_KEYS + 'public.key'
def _get_private_key(self):
"""run generate_keys() before get keys """
from corportal.utils import global_elements
private_key = global_elements.request.FILES.get('private_key')
if private_key:
private_key_file = File(private_key)
return private_key_file.read()
message = 'Hello мой friend'
encrypted_mes = ProductionEncryption().encrypt(message)
decrypted_mes = ProductionEncryption().decrypt(message)

Here is my implementation for python 3 and pycrypto
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
key = RSA.generate(4096)
f = open('/home/john/Desktop/my_rsa_public.pem', 'wb')
f.write(key.publickey().exportKey('PEM'))
f.close()
f = open('/home/john/Desktop/my_rsa_private.pem', 'wb')
f.write(key.exportKey('PEM'))
f.close()
f = open('/home/john/Desktop/my_rsa_public.pem', 'rb')
f1 = open('/home/john/Desktop/my_rsa_private.pem', 'rb')
key = RSA.importKey(f.read())
key1 = RSA.importKey(f1.read())
x = key.encrypt(b"dddddd",32)
print(x)
z = key1.decrypt(x)
print(z)

from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP
secret_message = b'ATTACK AT DAWN'
### First, make a key and save it
key = RSA.generate(2048)
with open( 'mykey.pem', 'wb' ) as f:
f.write( key.exportKey( 'PEM' ))
### Then use key to encrypt and save our message
public_crypter = PKCS1_OAEP.new( key )
enc_data = public_crypter.encrypt( secret_message )
with open( 'encrypted.txt', 'wb' ) as f:
f.write( enc_data )
### And later on load and decode
with open( 'mykey.pem', 'r' ) as f:
key = RSA.importKey( f.read() )
with open( 'encrypted.txt', 'rb' ) as f:
encrypted_data = f.read()
public_crypter = PKCS1_OAEP.new( key )
decrypted_data = public_crypter.decrypt( encrypted_data )

You can use simple way for genarate RSA . Use rsa library
pip install rsa

Watch out using Crypto!!!
It is a wonderful library but it has an issue in python3.8 'cause from the library time was removed the attribute clock(). To fix it just modify the source in /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/Crypto/Random/_UserFriendlyRNG.pyline 77 changing t = time.clock() int t = time.perf_counter()