Note: This is taken from the Chicken Wiki, where a more recent version could be available.
The aes egg implements the AES / Rijndael cryptosystem.
It does not provide any higher-level operations such as encryption 'modes'; it just provides two procedures per variant of the algorithm, which take a key (as a blob of the correct length) and return a procedure that maps 16-byte blobs to 16-byte blobs - one for encryption, one for decryption.
Rather conflating the purpose of the egg but usefully for writing tests, there are also procedures provided for converting between blobs and hexadecimal strings.
<examples> <example> <expr>(use aes)</expr> <expr>(use crypto-tools) ; for the hexstring functions</expr> <expr>(define encryptor (make-aes128-encryptor (hexstring→blob "00010203050607080A0B0C0D0F101112")))</expr> <expr>(define decryptor (make-aes128-decryptor (hexstring→blob "00010203050607080A0B0C0D0F101112")))</expr> <expr>(define encrypted (encryptor (hexstring→blob "506812A45F08C889B97F5980038B8359")))</expr> <expr>(define decrypted (decryptor encrypted))</expr> <expr>(blob→hexstring encrypted)</expr> <result>"d8f532538289ef7d06b506a4fd5be9c9"</result> <expr>(blob→hexstring decrypted)</expr> <result>"506812a45f08c889b97f5980038b8359"</result> </example> </examples>
<procedure>(make-aes128-encryptor BLOB) ⇒ PROCESSOR</procedure> <procedure>(make-aes128-decryptor BLOB) ⇒ PROCESSOR</procedure> <procedure>(make-aes192-encryptor BLOB) ⇒ PROCESSOR</procedure> <procedure>(make-aes192-decryptor BLOB) ⇒ PROCESSOR</procedure> <procedure>(make-aes256-encryptor BLOB) ⇒ PROCESSOR</procedure> <procedure>(make-aes256-decryptor BLOB) ⇒ PROCESSOR</procedure>
Using the supplied blob as a raw key, return a procedure that maps 16-byte blobs to 16-byte blobs, either encrypting or decrypting them with the specified key. The key is not modified in any way; if you just split your data into blocks (with padding) and encrypt each, you will merely be operating in ECB mode, which isn't very secure.
128-bit keys must be 16 bytes long, 192-bit keys 24 bytes, and 256-bit keys 32 bytes. Otherwise, an error will be signalled. Likewise, passing a blob of other than 16 bytes to a `PROCESSOR` will result in an error.
Alaric B. Snell-Pym, based on public domain code from http://www.efgh.com/software/rijndael.htm.
My modifications extend no further than pasting it together and putting static modifiers on all the functions.
The author of the original code is "Philip J. Erdelsky <pje@efgh.com>", who based it on code by Vincent Rijmen vincent.rijmen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be, Antoon Bosselaers antoon.bosselaers@esat.kuleuven.ac.be, and Paulo Barreto paulo.barreto@terra.com.br
The C code is based on public-domain code.
However, the Scheme wrapper is subject to the following license:
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The C implementation of the AES code is entirely embedded in the egg.