Encrypt / Decrypt JSON data between Python and PHP using AES 256 GCM

encryption.php

<?php
const PASSPHRASE = ''; // use 'openssl rand -hex 32' to generate key, same with python

function encrypt(array $data): string
{
    $data_json_64 = base64_encode(json_encode($data));
    $secret_key = hex2bin(PASSPHRASE);
    $iv = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(openssl_cipher_iv_length('aes-256-gcm'));
    $tag = '';
    $encrypted_64 = openssl_encrypt($data_json_64, 'aes-256-gcm', $secret_key, 0, $iv, $tag);
    $json = new stdClass();
    $json->iv = base64_encode($iv);
    $json->data = $encrypted_64;
    $json->tag = base64_encode($tag);
    return base64_encode(json_encode($json));
}

function decrypt(string $data): array
{
    $secret_key = hex2bin(PASSPHRASE);
    $json = json_decode(base64_decode($data), true);
    $iv = base64_decode($json['iv']);
    $tag = base64_decode($json['tag']);
    $encrypted_data = base64_decode($json['data']);
    $decrypted_data = openssl_decrypt($encrypted_data, 'aes-256-gcm', $secret_key, OPENSSL_RAW_DATA, $iv, $tag);
    return json_decode(base64_decode($decrypted_data),True);
}

encryption.py

import base64
import binascii
import json

# https://pypi.org/project/pycryptodome/
from Crypto import Random
from Crypto.Cipher import AES


PASSPHRASE = b'';  # use 'openssl rand -hex 32' to generate key, same with PHP. don't forget to cast to bytes

def encrypt(data: dict) -> str:
    global PASSPHRASE
    data_json_64 = base64.b64encode(json.dumps(data).encode('ascii'))
    try:
        key = binascii.unhexlify(PASSPHRASE)
        iv = Random.get_random_bytes(AES.block_size)
        cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_GCM, iv)
        encrypted, tag = cipher.encrypt_and_digest(data_json_64)
        encrypted_64 = base64.b64encode(encrypted).decode('ascii')
        iv_64 = base64.b64encode(iv).decode('ascii')
        tag_64 = base64.b64encode(tag).decode('ascii')
        json_data = {'iv': iv_64, 'data': encrypted_64, 'tag': tag_64}
        return base64.b64encode(json.dumps(json_data).encode('ascii')).decode('ascii')
    except:  # noqa
        return ''

def decrypt(data: str) -> dict:
    global PASSPHRASE
    try:
        key = binascii.unhexlify(PASSPHRASE)
        encrypted = json.loads(base64.b64decode(data).decode('ascii'))
        encrypted_data = base64.b64decode(encrypted['data'])
        iv = base64.b64decode(encrypted['iv'])
        tag = base64.b64decode(encrypted['tag'])
        cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_GCM, iv)
        decrypted = cipher.decrypt_and_verify(encrypted_data, tag)
        return json.loads(base64.b64decode(decrypted).decode('ascii'))
    except:  # noqa
        return {}

❤️ Acknowledgements

• Jonathan Kirszling @eoli3n
  • for this gist

I linked your gist in mine ;) thanks

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