Hello
I've been using b4xCipher to encrypt/decrypt strings in a text file before sharing it (with a secret static key) in my android app, with this very simple implementation:
However, the same files now must be decrypted by another application, written natively (by another developer) in swift/xcode.
Not being a security expert, i thought this to be a trivial matter, but i've been told that the b4x implementation uses bouncycastle, and is not standard AES.
Is there a simple way, or a library to do what b4XCipher does but in swift/c ?
If not so, what is the recommended way to crypt/decrypt for a multiplatform context? I don't mind changing library/standard if needed.
Thanks for the time and sorry if the post isn't clear..... until now encryption for me was just a library call, and i'm just starting to learn about salt, initialization vectors, protocols etc
I've been using b4xCipher to encrypt/decrypt strings in a text file before sharing it (with a secret static key) in my android app, with this very simple implementation:
B4X:
Sub EncryptString(text As String, password As String) As String
Dim c As B4XCipher
Dim e() As Byte
e = c.Encrypt(text.GetBytes("utf8"), password)
Dim su As StringUtils
Return su.EncodeBase64(e)
End SubHowever, the same files now must be decrypted by another application, written natively (by another developer) in swift/xcode.
Not being a security expert, i thought this to be a trivial matter, but i've been told that the b4x implementation uses bouncycastle, and is not standard AES.
Is there a simple way, or a library to do what b4XCipher does but in swift/c ?
If not so, what is the recommended way to crypt/decrypt for a multiplatform context? I don't mind changing library/standard if needed.
Thanks for the time and sorry if the post isn't clear..... until now encryption for me was just a library call, and i'm just starting to learn about salt, initialization vectors, protocols etc