Cryptography Is About Encryption

Simply put, Cryptography provides a method for secure communication. By using cryptography, we can send secret messages to others across an insecure medium (like the internet), and be sure that only the intended recipients will be able to read the message.

In this course, we'll be writing code in Go that makes up part of "Passly", a password manager. To start, let's write a function that will debug the logic that encrypts and decrypts passwords!

We encrypt passwords so that if an attacker gains access to the computer on which the passwords are stored, they still won't be able to read the passwords.

Assignment

Complete the debugEncryptDecrypt function.

Encrypt the provided password using encrypt, and assign it to a variable.
Decrypt the now-encrypted password using the decrypt function, and assign it to a variable.
Return the encrypted and decrypted passwords.

Note on the Details

Don't worry, we'll talk about how keys, ivs, and ciphers work in more detail later.

package main

import (

"crypto/aes"

"crypto/cipher"

"encoding/hex"

"fmt"

"log"

)

func debugEncryptDecrypt(masterKey, iv, password string) (string, string) {

// ?

}

// don't touch below this line

func encrypt(plainText, key, iv string) string {

bytes := []byte(plainText)

blockCipher, err := aes.NewCipher([]byte(key))

if err != nil {

log.Println(err)

return ""

}

stream := cipher.NewCTR(blockCipher, []byte(iv))

stream.XORKeyStream(bytes, bytes)

return fmt.Sprintf("%x", bytes)

}

func decrypt(cipherText, key, iv string) string {

blockCipher, err := aes.NewCipher([]byte(key))

if err != nil {

log.Println(err)

return ""

}

stream := cipher.NewCTR(blockCipher, []byte(iv))

bytes, err := hex.DecodeString(cipherText)