Encode in Laravel, decode in Python

Question

I\'m using Laravel\'s encryptString method to encrypt some data on my website. This uses OpenSSL\'s 256-bit AES-CBC encryption without any serialization. I\'m now trying to decr

Answer 1

I notice this haven't been active for a while but I'm trying to do the same and can't seem to make it work.

What I noticed is that the encoded password string stored by Laravel is a base 64 encoded json object, which wasn't taken into consideration in the original question:

pass_obj = base64.b64decode('eyJpdiI6ImdxY0VcLzFodmpISFV4allSWmJDdEpRPT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6IkxXd0ZJaUd2bTUweW5pNm0wUjQwOFM2N1wvWEs5SlYrNB4xNlR7Qkh1U3FvPSIsIm1hYyI6Ijc5ZWM0YTYxYjljZGFiNzgwNjY2NDU1ZmQ5Yjc1ZmJlOGU4NzBkMjQzMzA3MmVhYzE3NzY4ZmU1MWIyMjZlOTQifQ==')
print(pass_obj)
>>> b'{"iv":"gqcE\\/1hvjHHUxjYRZbCtJQ==","value":"LWwFIiGvm50yni6m0R408S67\\/XK9JV+4\x1e16T{BHuSqo=","mac":"79ec4a61b9cdab780666455fd9b75fbe8e870d2433072eac17768fe51b226e94"}'

From that you can get the IV and the encrypted value, both seem to be base64 encoded. But I still get a decoding error at the end like;

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 0: invalid start byte

Here is my complete code;

password = 'eyJpdiI6ImJGNDNNZjN3YWtpcDQ5VEJVXC9IazF3PT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6IkNVRW1VQUY1dXArYlFkU3NlY1pnZUE9PSIsIm1hYyI6ImM3ODk0NWQ0NjgxMzM4YjE0M2JhN2MzZWRmOWEwMWJiMjI2Y2FhYmUxYjFhYzAyYjY4YWZkZGE3N2EyMDYwNWYifQ=='
key = 'some secret key that i can't share'.encode()
p_obj = json.loads(base64.b64decode(password).decode())
decobj = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, base64.b64decode(p_obj['iv']))
data = decobj.decrypt(base64.b64decode(p_obj['value']))
print(data)
>>> b'l\xee:f\x9eZ\x90rP\x99\xca&@\x1d1\x9f'
data.decode()
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xee in position 1: invalid continuation byte

@Pecans did you ever figure this out?

Thank you.

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Full working code EDIT

I fugured it out, I had a problem with my key initially. So here's the full snippet for future reference;

import base64
import json
from phpserialize import unserialize
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
from Crypto.Util.Padding import pad, unpad

key = b'my secret key'
enc_pass = 'eyJpdiI6ImJGNDNNZjN3YWtpcDQ5VEJVXC9IazF3PT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6IkNVRW1VQUY1dXArYlFkU3NlY1pnZUE9PSIsIm1hYyI6ImM3ODk0NWQ0NjgxMzM4YjE0M2JhN2MzZWRmOWEwMWJiMjI2Y2FhYmUxYjFhYzAyYjY4YWZkZGE3N2EyMDYwNWYifQ=='

p_obj = json.loads(base64.b64decode(password).decode())
decobj = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, base64.b64decode(p_obj['iv']))
data = decobj.decrypt(base64.b64decode(p_obj['value']))
dec_pass = unserialize(unpad(data, 16)).decode()

You will have the decrypted password in dec_pass.

Note that sometimes Laravel generates the key in base64. In that case the string will be something like base64:sdfsdjfhjsdf32, then you have to decode first.

Cheers!