package secrets import ( "crypto/aes" "crypto/cipher" "crypto/rand" "encoding/hex" "fmt" "io" ) // encrypt/decrypt functions are taken from https://www.melvinvivas.com/how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-data-using-aes/ func encrypt(stringToEncrypt string, key []byte) (string, error) { plaintext := []byte(stringToEncrypt) //Create a new Cipher Block from the key block, err := aes.NewCipher(key) if err != nil { return "", err } //Create a new GCM - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode //https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/cipher/#NewGCM aesGCM, err := cipher.NewGCM(block) if err != nil { return "", err } //Create a nonce. Nonce should be from GCM nonce := make([]byte, aesGCM.NonceSize()) if _, err = io.ReadFull(rand.Reader, nonce); err != nil { return "", err } //Encrypt the data using aesGCM.Seal //Since we don't want to save the nonce somewhere else in this case, we add it as a prefix to the encrypted data. The first nonce argument in Seal is the prefix. ciphertext := aesGCM.Seal(nonce, nonce, plaintext, nil) return fmt.Sprintf("%x", ciphertext), nil } func decrypt(encryptedString string, key []byte) (string, error) { enc, _ := hex.DecodeString(encryptedString) //Create a new Cipher Block from the key block, err := aes.NewCipher(key) if err != nil { return "", err } //Create a new GCM aesGCM, err := cipher.NewGCM(block) if err != nil { return "", err } //Get the nonce size nonceSize := aesGCM.NonceSize() //Extract the nonce from the encrypted data nonce, ciphertext := enc[:nonceSize], enc[nonceSize:] //Decrypt the data plaintext, err := aesGCM.Open(nil, nonce, ciphertext, nil) if err != nil { return "", err } return fmt.Sprintf("%s", plaintext), nil }