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is sjcl.encrypt using AES or SHA256

I'm using the SJCL library to encrypt/decrypt messages. The question I have is that I don't know which is used AES or SHA256

Here is my code:

var h = sjcl.codec.hex, count = 2048 ;
salt = h.fromBits(sjcl.random.randomWords('10','0'));
var key = h.fromBits( sjcl.misc.pbkdf2(somePassword, h.toBits(salt), count) ) ;

Next I can encrypt/decrypt like

var encMessage = sjcl.encrypt(key, message) ;
sjcl.decrypt(key, encMessage) ;

AES or SHA256 or something else ?

Solution

  • pbkdf2 for key generation is using HMAC with SHA256. But the default encryption key size with sjcl for AES-CCM is only 128 bits. If you want AES-CCM-256, I think you need to do the following, you also don't have to call pbkdf2 directly.

    var encMessage =sjcl.encrypt(somePassword,message,{count:2048,salt:salt,ks:256});