Select different padding modes in OpenSSL commands

Abraham picture Abraham · May 10, 2015 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

I wrote a Java Card applet to do DES encryption/Decryption. The source code of my applet (If you want to use it, consider that Mr Bodewes found some bugs in this source code (those are mentioned in the comments under his answer. So fix it and then use) have the following functions:

  • DES_ECB_ISO9797_M1
  • DES_ECB_ISO9797_M2
  • DES_ECB_NOPAD
  • DES_ECB_PKCS5

I did a comparison between output of my program and output of an online tool, and finally I find them different. So I want to check correctness of my program's output using OpenSSL.

These are results for encrypting 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 with key = 0x11 0x22 0x33 0x44 0x55 0x66 0x77 0x88 :

::> SendToApplet.exe -key 1122334455667788 -data 3030303030303030

Command::

Data: 3030303030303030
Key : 1122334455667788

Results::

DES_ECB_ISO9797_M1:
8E 43 CF B8 91 02 01 38 .C.....8
DES_ECB_ISO9797_M2:
A6 DE 1C D9 1B A9 EE D0 ........
DES_ECB_NOPAD:
0B FC BF EE 82 F4 8B 19 .......
DES_ECB_PKCS5:
AA 6E 4D 79 E5 0C B1 51 .nMy...Q 

The question is how I can check to see if these results are OK?

This is list of OpenSSL tool commands and arguments:

OpenSSL> ?
openssl:Error: '?' is an invalid command.

Standard commands
asn1parse      ca             ciphers        crl            crl2pkcs7
dgst           dh             dhparam        dsa            dsaparam
ec             ecparam        enc            engine         errstr
gendh          gendsa         genrsa         nseq           ocsp
passwd         pkcs12         pkcs7          pkcs8          prime
rand           req            rsa            rsautl         s_client
s_server       s_time         sess_id        smime          speed
spkac          verify         version        x509

Message Digest commands (see the `dgst' command for more details)
md2            md4            md5            rmd160         sha
sha1

Cipher commands (see the `enc' command for more details)
aes-128-cbc    aes-128-ecb    aes-192-cbc    aes-192-ecb    aes-256-cbc
aes-256-ecb    base64         bf             bf-cbc         bf-cfb
bf-ecb         bf-ofb         cast           cast-cbc       cast5-cbc
cast5-cfb      cast5-ecb      cast5-ofb      des            des-cbc
des-cfb        des-ecb        des-ede        des-ede-cbc    des-ede-cfb
des-ede-ofb    des-ede3       des-ede3-cbc   des-ede3-cfb   des-ede3-ofb
des-ofb        des3           desx           idea           idea-cbc
idea-cfb       idea-ecb       idea-ofb       rc2            rc2-40-cbc
rc2-64-cbc     rc2-cbc        rc2-cfb        rc2-ecb        rc2-ofb
rc4            rc4-40

Unfortunately I can see anything related to the Padding modes (i.e ISO9797_M1, ISO9797_M2, NOPAD and PKCS5). How I can specify them in my command?

Answer

Maarten Bodewes picture Maarten Bodewes · May 10, 2015

Padding happens before encryption with the block cipher. That means you can always check by decrypting the ciphertext and validating the padding by hand. Using openssl you can simply use -nopad and -K <key in hex> and then validate the output (converting the binary to human readable format first).

Currently we cannot validate because your applet is not returning enough data; you probably forgot to finalize the encryption.