Card Decryption

Sensitive data about the card such as the card number and CVV are encrypted on the data the partner receives via the webhook or an API endpoint.

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CIPHER ALGORITHM

aes-256-cbc

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DECRYPTION KEY

App Secret Key

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Sample decryption using Node.JS

https://replit.com/@Olanipekunife/AES-Decryption

Next Steps

• The encrypted string needs to be converted to a buffer

const encryptedStringBuffer = Buffer.from(encryptedString, 'hex');

• The IV(initialization vector) that will be used to decrypt can be gotten first 16 characters of the buffer created from the encrypted string(encryptedStringBuffer)

// Initialization Vector
const iv = encryptedStringBuffer.slice(0, 16)

• To get the encrypted text that needs to be decrypted, the first 16 characters which is the IV needs to be removed from the encrypted string buffer

const encryptedText = encryptedStringBuffer.slice(16);

Generating a suitable key that can be used

// Key length is dependent on the algorithm, such as for aes192, it's 24 bytes, or aes256, it's 32 bytes. You need to have a key length of 32 byte (256 bit)
const key = crypto
                .createHash('sha256')
                .update(String(app_secret_key))
                .digest('base64')
                .substring(0, 32);

• Define the algorithm which is via AES Encryption

const algorithm = 'aes-256-cbc'; // Using AES encryption

• The next thing to do here will be to decipher the key with the AES encryption and the Initialisation vector (IV).

let decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv(algorithm, key, iv);

let decrypted = decipher.update(encryptedText);

decrypted = Buffer.concat([decrypted, decipher.final()]);

• Convert your decrypted value to String.

const decryptedString = decrypted.toString();