Ok, thank you for your help.

2011/6/2 Jakob Bieling <[email protected]>:
> Hi again,
>
>  one more follow-up. I mixed up on-the-fly encryption with standalone 
> encryption:
>
>  - standalone encryption on the CC2420 really allows encryption only and does 
> not use CTR mode, ie. if you encrypt data, you cannot decrypt it, unless you 
> use a specific cipher mode (like CTR)
>  - on-the-fly encryption uses CTR mode and here the process for encrypting 
> and decrypting is the same (tho you would not have to care about that, since 
> the chip does pretty much everything for you)
>
>  This means, you can use the standalone encryption only in cipher modes like 
> CTR, where only the encryption process is needed. Consequently, you will have 
> to implement your own CTR mode, if you want to be able to decrypt your data. 
> If you are not familiar with CTR, Wikipedia is a good place to start.
>
> Best,
> Jakob
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Jakob Bieling wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Damian Rusinek wrote:
>>> Unfortunately encrypting the ciper again does not decrypt it.
>>
>>  In the sample code, try setting the plain text to
>>
>>  uint8_t aes_plaintext[16] = {
>>    0x69, 0xc4, 0xe0, 0xd8, 0x6a, 0x7b, 0x04, 0x30,
>>    0xd8, 0xcd, 0xb7, 0x80, 0x70, 0xb4, 0xc5, 0x5a,
>>  };
>>
>>  and check what the encrypted text is. Make sure the rest of the sample code 
>> is unchanged!
>>
>>> To
>>> decrypt, you need to provide generated keys in inverted order. That's
>>> what I want to achieve.
>>
>>  I am not sure what you mean by that. In general, the CC2420 needs inversion 
>> of the key-bytes, because the key is read like that (i.e., backwards) into 
>> RAM. But this affects encryption as well as decryption and is already done 
>> by that library. You should not need to invert anything.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jakob
>>
>>
>>> 2011/6/2 Jakob Bieling <[email protected]>:
>>>> try "encryting" the cipher text again. The CC2420 AES works in CTR mode, 
>>>> meaning encryption and decryption are the same operation.
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, if you send your packets anyway, you can use the built-in 
>>>> functionality of the CC2420 chip to encrypt all outgoing packets on the 
>>>> fly. It will also decrypt incoming packets automatically. TinyOS already 
>>>> allows for this, simply Google for "tinyos cc2420 security tutorial". Note 
>>>> that the actual wiki seems to be down, but you use the Google cache. That 
>>>> worked for me.
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Damian Rusinek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>> I'm using 'The Standalone AES Encryption of CC2420' which is described
>>>>> here: 
>>>>> http://cis.sjtu.edu.cn/index.php/The_Standalone_AES_Encryption_of_CC2420_(TinyOS_2.10_and_MICAz)
>>>>>
>>>>> I encrypt the payload of my packet before sending.
>>>>> The question is how can I decrypt it?
>>>>> Does anybody use this library?
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Damian Rusinek.

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