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NAME

aes - Implementation of the AES block cipher

Table Of Contents

SYNOPSIS

package require Tcl 8.5 9
package require aes ?1.2.2?

::aes::aes ?-mode [ecb|cbc]? ?-dir [encrypt|decrypt]? -key keydata ?-iv vector? ?-hex? ?-out channel? ?-chunksize size? [ -in channel | ?--? data ]
::aes::Init mode keydata iv
::aes::Encrypt Key data
::aes::Decrypt Key data
::aes::Reset Key iv
::aes::Final Key

DESCRIPTION

This is an implementation in Tcl of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as published by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology [1]. AES is a 128-bit block cipher with a variable key size of 128, 192 or 256 bits. This implementation supports ECB and CBC modes.

COMMANDS

PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

Internal state is maintained in an opaque structure that is returned from the Init function. In ECB mode the state is not affected by the input but for CBC mode some input dependent state is maintained and may be reset by calling the Reset function with a new initialization vector value.

MODES OF OPERATION

EXAMPLES

% set nil_block [string repeat \\0 16]
% aes::aes -hex -mode cbc -dir encrypt -key $nil_block $nil_block
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set Key [aes::Init cbc $sixteen_bytes_key_data $sixteen_byte_iv]
append ciphertext [aes::Encrypt $Key $plaintext]
append ciphertext [aes::Encrypt $Key $additional_plaintext]
aes::Final $Key

REFERENCES

  1. "Advanced Encryption Standard", Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 197, 2001 (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf)

AUTHORS

Thorsten Schloermann, Pat Thoyts

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SEE ALSO

blowfish(n), des(n), md5(n), sha1(n)

KEYWORDS

aes, block cipher, data integrity, encryption, security

CATEGORY

Hashes, checksums, and encryption

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2005, Pat Thoyts
Copyright © 2012-2014, Andreas Kupries