Encrypt & Decrypt using PyCrypto AES 256

Question

I\'m trying to build two functions using PyCrypto that accept two parameters: the message and the key, and then encrypt/decrypt the message.

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Answer 1

For the benefit of others, here is my decryption implementation which I got to by combining the answers of @Cyril and @Marcus. This assumes that this coming in via HTTP Request with the encryptedText quoted and base64 encoded.

import base64
import urllib2
from Crypto.Cipher import AES


def decrypt(quotedEncodedEncrypted):
    key = 'SecretKey'

    encodedEncrypted = urllib2.unquote(quotedEncodedEncrypted)

    cipher = AES.new(key)
    decrypted = cipher.decrypt(base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted))[:16]

    for i in range(1, len(base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted))/16):
        cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted)[(i-1)*16:i*16])
        decrypted += cipher.decrypt(base64.b64decode(encodedEncrypted)[i*16:])[:16]

    return decrypted.strip()