package aes

version: 1.10

package aes

import "crypto/aes"

Overview

Package aes implements AES encryption (formerly Rijndael), as defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 197.

The AES operations in this package are not implemented using constant-time algorithms. An exception is when running on systems with enabled hardware support for AES that makes these operations constant-time. Examples include amd64 systems using AES-NI extensions and s390x systems using Message-Security-Assist extensions. On such systems, when the result of NewCipher is passed to cipher.NewGCM, the GHASH operation used by GCM is also constant-time.

Index

• Constants
• func NewCipher(key []byte) (cipher.Block, error)
• type KeySizeError
  • func (k KeySizeError) Error() string

Package files

aes_gcm.go block.go cipher.go cipher_amd64.go const.go modes.go

Constants

const BlockSize = 16

The AES block size in bytes.

func NewCipher ¶

func NewCipher(key []byte) (cipher.Block, error)

NewCipher creates and returns a new cipher.Block. The key argument should be the AES key, either 16, 24, or 32 bytes to select AES-128, AES-192, or AES-256.

type KeySizeError ¶

type KeySizeError int

func (KeySizeError) Error ¶

func (k KeySizeError) Error() string