When implementing symmetric encryption in an application, I had some trouble specifying the correct key size.
I tried some possible key values but I always got the following error back:
public string Encrypt(string plainText, string key = KEY, string IV = IV)
{
byte[] encrypted;
// Create an Aes object
// with the specified key and IV.
using (Aes aesAlg = Aes.Create())
{
aesAlg.Key = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(key);
aesAlg.IV = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(IV);
// Create a decrytor to perform the stream transform.
ICryptoTransform encryptor = aesAlg.CreateEncryptor(aesAlg.Key, aesAlg.IV);
// Create the streams used for encryption.
using (var msEncrypt = new MemoryStream())
using (var csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
using (var swEncrypt = new StreamWriter(csEncrypt))
{
//Write all data to the stream.
swEncrypt.Write(plainText);
}
encrypted = msEncrypt.ToArray();
}
}
// Return the encrypted bytes from the memory stream.
return Convert.ToBase64String(encrypted);
}
I tried some possible key values but I always got the following error back:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The specified key is not a valid size for this algorithm.
at System.Security.Cryptography.AesCryptoServiceProvider.set_Key(Byte[] value)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceDefaultCtor(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.CreateInstance(String typeName, Boolean ignoreCase, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes)