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This cordova ionic plugin allows you to perform AES 256 encryption and decryption on the plain text. It's a cross-platform plugin which supports both Android and iOS. The encryption and decryption are performed on the device native layer so that the performance is much faster.

Repo: https://github.com/Ideas2IT/cordova-aes256

Installation

1. Install the Cordova and Ionic Native plugins:
   

   $ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-aes256-encryption
   $ npm install --save @ionic-native/aes-256@4
   

2. Add this plugin to your app's module

Supported platforms

• Android
• iOS

Usage

import { AES256 } from '@ionic-native/aes-256';

private secureKey: string;
private secureIV: string;

constructor(private aes256: AES256) {
   this.generateSecureKeyAndIV(); // To generate the random secureKey and secureIV
}

...

async generateSecureKeyAndIV() {
   this.secureKey = await this.aes256.generateSecureKey('random password 12345'); // Returns a 32 bytes string
   this.secureIV = await this.aes256.generateSecureIV('random password 12345'); // Returns a 16 bytes string
}

this.aes256.encrypt(this.secureKey, this.secureIV, 'testdata')
  .then(res => console.log('Encrypted Data: ',res))
  .catch((error: any) => console.error(error));

this.aes256.decrypt(this.secureKey, this.secureIV, 'encryptedData')
  .then(res => console.log('Decrypted Data : ',res))
  .catch((error: any) => console.error(error));


* this.aes256.generateSecureKey('random password 12345')
  .then(res => console.log('Secure Key : ',res))
  .catch((error: any) => console.error(error));


* this.aes256.generateSecureIV('random password 12345')
  .then(res => console.log('Secure IV : ',res))
  .catch((error: any) => console.error(error));

Instance Members

encrypt(secureKey, secureIV, data)

This function used to perform the aes256 encryption

decrypt(secureKey, secureIV, data)

This function used to perform the aes256 decryption

generateSecureKey(password)

This function used to generate a secure key based on an password. Perfect if you want to delegate the key generation for encryption to the plugin. Make sure to save the return value of this function somewhere so your encrypted data can be decrypted in the future.

generateSecureIV(password)

This function used to generate a secure IV based on an password. Perfect if you want to delegate the IV generation for encryption to the plugin. Make sure to save the return value of this function somewhere so your encrypted data can be decrypted in the future.