Golang Encode/Decode base64 with json post doesn't work - json

Question

I build a client and a server in golang both are using this functions to encrypt/decrypt
func encrypt(text []byte) ([]byte, error) {
block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
b := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(text)
ciphertext := make([]byte, aes.BlockSize+len(b))
iv := ciphertext[:aes.BlockSize]
if _, err := io.ReadFull(rand.Reader, iv); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
cfb := cipher.NewCFBEncrypter(block, iv)
cfb.XORKeyStream(ciphertext[aes.BlockSize:], []byte(b))
return ciphertext, nil
}
func decrypt(text []byte) ([]byte, error) {
block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if len(text) < aes.BlockSize {
return nil, errors.New("ciphertext too short")
}
iv := text[:aes.BlockSize]
text = text[aes.BlockSize:]
cfb := cipher.NewCFBDecrypter(block, iv)
cfb.XORKeyStream(text, text)
data, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(string(text))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return data, nil
}
so yeah I make a normal post request
url := "https://"+configuration.Server+configuration.Port+"/get"
// TODO maybe bugs rest here
ciphertext, err := encrypt([]byte(*getUrl))
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error: " + err.Error())
}
fmt.Println(string(ciphertext))
values := map[string]interface{}{"url": *getUrl, "urlCrypted": ciphertext}
jsonValue, _ := json.Marshal(values)
jsonStr := bytes.NewBuffer(jsonValue)
req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", url, jsonStr)
and the servercode is as following
requestContent := getRequestContentFromRequest(req)
url := requestContent["url"].(string)
undecryptedUrl := requestContent["urlCrypted"].(string)
decryptedurl, err := decrypt([]byte(undecryptedUrl))
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error: " + err.Error())
}
fmt.Println(decryptedurl)
where getRequestContentFromRequest is as following
func getRequestContentFromRequest(req *http.Request)
map[string]interface{} {
buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
buf.ReadFrom(req.Body)
data := buf.Bytes()
var requestContent map[string]interface{}
err := json.Unmarshal(data, &requestContent)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
}
return requestContent
}
Now to the problem.
If I encrypt my string in the client and decrypt it direct after that everything is fine.
But, when I send the encrypted string to the server and try to decrypt it with literrally the same function as in the client, the decrypt function throws an error.
Error: illegal base64 data at input byte 0
I think the Problem is the unmarshalling of the JSON.
Thanks for help.
P.S.
Repos are
github.com/BelphegorPrime/goSafeClient and github.com/BelphegorPrime/goSafe
UPDATE
Example JSON
{"url":"facebook2.com","urlCrypted":"/}\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdgP\ufffdN뼞\ufffd\u0016\ufffd)\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdy\u001c\u000f\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdep\ufffd\rY\ufffd\ufffd$\ufffd\ufffd"}
UPDATE2
I made a playground here

Answer 1

The problem is that you encode in base64 twice. The first time in the encrypt function and the second time during the JSON marshalling. byte slices are automatically converted into base64 strings by the encoding/json marshaller.
The solution is to decode the base64 string before calling decrypt.
Example on the Go PlayGround
EDIT
Working solution here