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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.
GitHub Source Code: https://github.com/Ideas2IT/cordova-aes256
Requires Cordova plugin:
cordova-plugin-aes256-encryption
Supported Platforms #
- Android
- iOS
Usage #
private secureKey: string;
private secureIV: string;
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));