golang encrypt example
package main import ( "crypto/aes" "crypto/cipher" "crypto/rand" "encoding/hex" "fmt" "io" ) func main() { bytes := make([]byte, 32) //generate a random 32 byte key for AES-256 if _, err := rand.Read(bytes); err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } key := hex.EncodeToString(bytes) //encode key in bytes to string and keep as secret, put in a vault fmt.Printf("key to encrypt/decrypt : %s\n", key) encrypted := encrypt("Hello Encrypt", key) fmt.Printf("encrypted : %s\n", encrypted) decrypted := decrypt(encrypted, key) fmt.Printf("decrypted : %s\n", decrypted) } func encrypt(stringToEncrypt string, keyString string) (encryptedString string) { //Since the key is in string, we need to convert decode it to bytes key, _ := hex.DecodeString(keyString) plaintext := []byte(stringToEncrypt) //Create a new Cipher Block from the key block, err := aes.NewCipher(key) if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } //Create a new GCM - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode //https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/cipher/#NewGCM aesGCM, err := cipher.NewGCM(block) if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } //Create a nonce. Nonce should be from GCM nonce := make([]byte, aesGCM.NonceSize()) if _, err = io.ReadFull(rand.Reader, nonce); err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } //Encrypt the data using aesGCM.Seal //Since we don't want to save the nonce somewhere else in this case, we add it as a prefix to the encrypted data. The first nonce argument in Seal is the prefix. ciphertext := aesGCM.Seal(nonce, nonce, plaintext, nil) return fmt.Sprintf("%x", ciphertext) } func decrypt(encryptedString string, keyString string) (decryptedString string) { key, _ := hex.DecodeString(keyString) enc, _ := hex.DecodeString(encryptedString) //Create a new Cipher Block from the key block, err := aes.NewCipher(key) if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } //Create a new GCM aesGCM, err := cipher.NewGCM(block) if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } //Get the nonce size nonceSize := aesGCM.NonceSize() //Extract the nonce from the encrypted data nonce, ciphertext := enc[:nonceSize], enc[nonceSize:] //Decrypt the data plaintext, err := aesGCM.Open(nil, nonce, ciphertext, nil) if err != nil { panic(err.Error()) } return fmt.Sprintf("%s", plaintext) }