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Hi All,

I have tried unsuccessfully to perform string encryption. My grasp of the C language is not good. I have tried existing libraries without success, such as skipjack from avr-crypto, and also AES from another source.

If anybody was able to provide some assistance, I would be much appreciative!

Thanks,

Dauhee.

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Maybe a simpler encryption will work? what is the purpose of encrypting strings in your project?

[Reply #2 on:]

It is for transmission over virtualwire between arduino units. I had looked at XOR but its very weak. XTEA, SKipjack, DES, AES, anything will do!

Thanks.

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It is for transmission over virtualwire between arduino units. I had looked at XOR but its very weak. XTEA, SKipjack, DES, AES, anything will do!

Thanks.

XOR used with a one-time key pad is unbreakable.

Lefty

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I have tried existing libraries without success

You haven't said what failed. Why not post some code which demonstrates the problem?

Pete

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if there was example code for XOR one time pad that would be fantastic!

The code I have been working with is as below. It only works for N_BLOCK chars which is 16. Any chars after that are ignored and don't get encrypted. I've tried to use multi-dimentional byte arrays and its getting ugly

Code:

#include <AES.h>

AES aes ;


void loop ()
{
}


void setup ()
{
  Serial.begin (57600) ;


  const int KEYLENGTH = 32;

  char PassString[] = "This is hard to believe but true however";// this must be at least KEYLENGTH characters long
  byte key[KEYLENGTH];


  char Message[] = "A top secret message. 123456789012345678901234";
  byte plain[strlen(Message)];
  byte cipher[strlen(Message)];
  byte decrypted[strlen(Message)];
 
  String strData = "";

  Serial.println("Starting AES test");


  for (int i = 0; i < KEYLENGTH; i++)
  {
    key[i] = PassString[i];
  }
 
    for (int i = 0; i < strlen(Message); i++)
  {
    plain[i] = Message[i];
    cipher[i] = 0;
    decrypted[i] = 0;
  }

  if (aes.set_key(key, KEYLENGTH) != 0)
  {
    Serial.println(F("Failed to set key"));
  }

    for (int a = 0; a < (int)ceil((float)strlen(Message)/(float)N_BLOCK); a++)
    {
      //Serial.println(a);
    }

  if (aes.encrypt(plain, cipher) == 0)
  {

    Serial.print(F("encrypted char: '"));
    for (int i = 0; i < strlen(Message); i++)
    {
      Serial.print(char(cipher[i]));
    }
    Serial.println(F("'"));
  }
  else
  {
    Serial.println(F("Failed to encrypt"));
  }

  if (aes.decrypt(cipher, decrypted) == 0)
  {

    Serial.print(F("decrypted char : '"));
    for (int i = 0; i < strlen(Message); i++)
    {
      Serial.print(char(decrypted[i]));
    }
    Serial.println(F("'"));
  }
  else
  {
    Serial.println(F("Failed to decrypt"));
  }
}

This is using the AES library under:
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,88890.0.html

And additional help from:
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,96197.0.html

Any assistance would help minimise my hair loss


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