TripleDES: Specified key is a known weak key for 'TripleDES' and cannot be used

Question

I\'m using the .NET 3.0 class System.Security.Cryptography.MACTripleDES class to generate a MAC value. Unfortunately, I am working with a hardware device that

Answer 1

I found out what you need to do. Fortunately there is a method that available that creates the ICryptoTranforms that doesn't check for weak keys. You also need to watch out for the base class as it also does sanity checks. Via reflection simply call out the _NewEncryptor method (you need to do a little more reflection, but that's the idea).

Luckily the MACTripleDES has a field of type TripleDES, so derive from MACTripleDES and replace it via reflection in the constructors. I have done all the work for you.

I can't verify that the correct MAC is generated, but no exceptions are thrown. Furthermore, you might want to doc comment the code and do exception handling (reflection failures - e.g. if the fields/methods are not there) - but this is SO; so I didn't bother.

using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.IO;

namespace DesHack
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            byte[] key = new byte[24];
            for (int i = 0; i < key.Length; i++)
                key[i] = 0x11;

            byte[] data = new byte[] { 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 };
            byte[] computedMac = null;
            using (MACTripleDES mac = new MACTripleDESHack(key))
            {
                computedMac = mac.ComputeHash(data);
            }
        }
    }

    class MACTripleDESHack : MACTripleDES
    {
        TripleDES _desHack = new DesHack();

        static FieldInfo _cspField = typeof(MACTripleDES).GetField("des", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);

        public MACTripleDESHack()
            : base()
        {
            RewireDes();
        }

        public MACTripleDESHack(byte[] rgbKey)
            : base(rgbKey)
        {
            RewireDes();
        }

        private void RewireDes()
        {
            _cspField.SetValue(this, _desHack);
        }

    }

    class DesHack : TripleDES
    {
        TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider _backing = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider();

        static MethodInfo _newEncryptor;
        static object _encrypt;
        static object _decrypt;

        public override int BlockSize
        {
            get
            {
                return _backing.BlockSize;
            }
            set
            {
                _backing.BlockSize = value;
            }
        }

        public override int FeedbackSize
        {
            get
            {
                return _backing.FeedbackSize;
            }
            set
            {
                _backing.FeedbackSize = value;
            }
        }

        // For these two we ALSO need to avoid
        // the base class - it also checks
        // for weak keys.
        private byte[] _iv;
        public override byte[] IV
        {
            get
            {
                return _iv;
            }
            set
            {
                _iv = value;
            }
        }

        private byte[] _key;
        public override byte[] Key
        {
            get
            {
                return _key;
            }
            set
            {
                _key = value;
            }
        }

        public override int KeySize
        {
            get
            {
                return _backing.KeySize;
            }
            set
            {
                _backing.KeySize = value;
            }
        }

        public override KeySizes[] LegalBlockSizes
        {
            get
            {
                return _backing.LegalBlockSizes;
            }
        }

        public override KeySizes[] LegalKeySizes
        {
            get
            {
                return _backing.LegalKeySizes;
            }
        }

        public override CipherMode Mode
        {
            get
            {
                return _backing.Mode;
            }
            set
            {
                _backing.Mode = value;
            }
        }

        public override PaddingMode Padding
        {
            get
            {
                return _backing.Padding;
            }
            set
            {
                _backing.Padding = value;
            }
        }


        static DesHack()
        {
            _encrypt = typeof(object).Assembly.GetType("System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoAPITransformMode").GetField("Encrypt").GetValue(null);
            _decrypt = typeof(object).Assembly.GetType("System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoAPITransformMode").GetField("Decrypt").GetValue(null);
            _newEncryptor = typeof(TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider).GetMethod("_NewEncryptor", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
        }

        public DesHack()
        {            
        }

        public override ICryptoTransform CreateDecryptor()
        {
            return CreateDecryptor(_key, _iv);
        }

        public override ICryptoTransform CreateEncryptor()
        {
            return CreateEncryptor(_key, _iv);
        }

        public override ICryptoTransform CreateDecryptor(byte[] rgbKey, byte[] rgbIV)
        {
            // return this._NewEncryptor(rgbKey, base.ModeValue, rgbIV, base.FeedbackSizeValue, CryptoAPITransformMode.Decrypt);
            return (ICryptoTransform) _newEncryptor.Invoke(_backing,
                new object[] { rgbKey, ModeValue, rgbIV, FeedbackSizeValue, _decrypt });
        }

        public override ICryptoTransform CreateEncryptor(byte[] rgbKey, byte[] rgbIV)
        {
            // return this._NewEncryptor(rgbKey, base.ModeValue, rgbIV, base.FeedbackSizeValue, CryptoAPITransformMode.Encrypt);
            return (ICryptoTransform) _newEncryptor.Invoke(_backing,
                new object[] { rgbKey, ModeValue, rgbIV, FeedbackSizeValue, _encrypt });
        }

        public override void GenerateIV()
        {
            _backing.GenerateIV();
        }

        public override void GenerateKey()
        {
            _backing.GenerateKey();
        }

        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing)
                ((IDisposable) _backing).Dispose();
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }
    }
}