Encrypting files with AES on Android

Question

So I am working on a personal project for myself, and I am trying to encrypt files on my phone. These files can be anything i.e Documents, photos, etc. Right now I am trying to get this working properly. When ever I run the encryption it seems to work properly and encrypt the files. When I run the decrypt, sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. When it fails I generally get a "Error while finalizing cipher, pad block corrupted" error. I'm also not using different test files, so it isn't like some files work and others don't. It's the same two files I try each time.

public static void encryptfile(String path,String Pass) throws IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException {
    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(path);
    FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(path.concat(".crypt"));
    byte[] key = (salt + Pass).getBytes("UTF-8");
    MessageDigest sha = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
    key = sha.digest(key);
    key = Arrays.copyOf(key,16);
    SecretKeySpec sks = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
    Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
    cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, sks);
    CipherOutputStream cos = new CipherOutputStream(fos, cipher);
    int b;
    byte[] d = new byte[8];
    while((b = fis.read(d)) != -1) {
        cos.write(d, 0, b);
    }
    cos.flush();
    cos.close();
    fis.close();
}

public static void decrypt(String path,String Pass) throws IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException {
    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(path);
    FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(path.replace(".crypt",""));
    byte[] key = (salt + Pass).getBytes("UTF-8");
    MessageDigest sha = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
    key = sha.digest(key);
    key = Arrays.copyOf(key,16);
    SecretKeySpec sks = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
    Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
    cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, sks);
    CipherInputStream cis = new CipherInputStream(fis, cipher);
    int b;
    byte[] d = new byte[8];
    while((b = cis.read(d)) != -1) {
        fos.write(d, 0, b);
    }
    fos.flush();
    fos.close();
    cis.close();
}

Currently the Salt and Password are static and do not change for testing purposes. Still get errors about half the time.

Does anyone have any ideas on why this happens? I have been searching around and I have found a couple things to try, none of which worked. I have looked through some of the following questions for solutions:

Android decryption: Error while finalizing cipher

last block incomplete with CipherInputStream/CipherOutputStream, even with padding AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding

Encryption error on Android 4.2

Decrypting error : "no iv set when one expected"

How to handle "last block incomplete in decryption"

Encryption and decryption of image file

Tips on encryption/decryption of images in java using AES

Any help is greatly appreciated! I think I am just missing something simple...

Update!

People were right when it was the salt. When I removed the salt, the problem was solved... Did a little more digging, turns out salt+Pass was the issues, but because the salt was a byte[] and Pass was a string. I changed salt to String and then used salt.concat(Pass) and the problem was solved!

Answer 1

maybe I'm missing something but on my side it works without a problem. Can you try the following class simply changing the fileToBeCrypted, fileToBeDecrypted and fileDecryptedOutput variables?

package test;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.util.Arrays;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.CipherInputStream;
import javax.crypto.CipherOutputStream;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

public class TestCrypt{

    private static final String salt = "t784";
    private static final String cryptPassword = "873147cbn9x5'2 79'79314";
    private static final String fileToBeCrypted = "c:\\Temp\\sampleFile.conf";
    private static final String fileToBeDecrypted = "c:\\Temp\\sampleFile.conf.crypt";
    private static final String fileDecryptedOutput = "c:\\Temp\\sampleFile.conf.decrypted";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        for (int i=0; i<100; i++)
        {
            encryptfile(fileToBeCrypted, cryptPassword);
            decrypt(fileToBeDecrypted, cryptPassword, fileDecryptedOutput);
            System.out.println(i);
        }
    }

    public static void encryptfile(String path,String password) throws IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException {
        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(path);
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(path.concat(".crypt"));
        byte[] key = (salt + password).getBytes("UTF-8");
        MessageDigest sha = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
        key = sha.digest(key);
        key = Arrays.copyOf(key,16);
        SecretKeySpec sks = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
        cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, sks);
        CipherOutputStream cos = new CipherOutputStream(fos, cipher);
        int b;
        byte[] d = new byte[8];
        while((b = fis.read(d)) != -1) {
            cos.write(d, 0, b);
        }
        cos.flush();
        cos.close();
        fis.close();
    }

    public static void decrypt(String path,String password, String outPath) throws IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException {
        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(path);
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(outPath);
        byte[] key = (salt + password).getBytes("UTF-8");
        MessageDigest sha = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
        key = sha.digest(key);
        key = Arrays.copyOf(key,16);
        SecretKeySpec sks = new SecretKeySpec(key, "AES");
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
        cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, sks);
        CipherInputStream cis = new CipherInputStream(fis, cipher);
        int b;
        byte[] d = new byte[8];
        while((b = cis.read(d)) != -1) {
            fos.write(d, 0, b);
        }
        fos.flush();
        fos.close();
        cis.close();
    }

}

I can iterate many times without an error! I'm using Oracle JDK 1.8 but running in 1.7 compatibility mode.

Hope this helps you out.

Bye Piero