AES encryption/decryption with PBKDF2 key derivation example in Go language

aes_encryption.go

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto/aes"
	"crypto/cipher"
	"crypto/rand"
	"crypto/sha256"
	"encoding/base64"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"strings"

	"golang.org/x/crypto/pbkdf2"
)

const BlockSize = 32

func deriveKey(passphrase string, salt []byte) []byte {
	// http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2898.txt
	if salt == nil {
		salt = make([]byte, 8)
		// rand.Read(salt)
	}
	return pbkdf2.Key([]byte(passphrase), salt, 1000, BlockSize, sha256.New)
}

func addBase64Padding(value string) string {
	m := len(value) % 4
	if m != 0 {
		value += strings.Repeat("=", 4-m)
	}

	return value
}

func removeBase64Padding(value string) string {
	return strings.Replace(value, "=", "", -1)
}

func Pad(src []byte) []byte {
	padding := aes.BlockSize - len(src)%aes.BlockSize
	padtext := bytes.Repeat([]byte{byte(padding)}, padding)

	return append(src, padtext...)
}

func Unpad(src []byte) ([]byte, error) {
	length := len(src)
	unpadding := int(src[length-1])

	if unpadding > length {
		return nil, errors.New("unpad error. This could happen when incorrect encryption key is used")
	}

	return src[:(length - unpadding)], nil
}

func encrypt(key []byte, text string) (string, error) {
	block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	msg := Pad([]byte(text))
	ciphertext := make([]byte, aes.BlockSize+len(msg))
	iv := ciphertext[:aes.BlockSize]
	if _, err := io.ReadFull(rand.Reader, iv); err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	cfb := cipher.NewCFBEncrypter(block, iv)
	cfb.XORKeyStream(ciphertext[aes.BlockSize:], []byte(msg))
	finalMsg := removeBase64Padding(base64.URLEncoding.EncodeToString(ciphertext))

	return finalMsg, nil
}

func decrypt(key []byte, text string) (string, error) {
	block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	decodedMsg, err := base64.URLEncoding.DecodeString(addBase64Padding(text))
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	if (len(decodedMsg) % aes.BlockSize) != 0 {
		return "", errors.New("blocksize must be multipe of decoded message length")
	}

	iv := decodedMsg[:aes.BlockSize]
	msg := decodedMsg[aes.BlockSize:]

	cfb := cipher.NewCFBDecrypter(block, iv)
	cfb.XORKeyStream(msg, msg)

	unpadMsg, err := Unpad(msg)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	return string(unpadMsg), nil
}

func main() {
	key := deriveKey("password", nil)
	encryptMsg, _ := encrypt(key, "Hello World")
	fmt.Println(encryptMsg)
	msg, _ := decrypt(key, encryptMsg)
	fmt.Println(msg)
}