Decrypts the next record of ciphertext according to the algorithm specified in the ENCRYPT$INIT call. Format ENCRYPT$DECRYPT context, input, output [,output-length] [,p1]
1 – Arguments
context type: longword integer (signed) access: write only mechanism: by reference Context area initialized when ENCRYPT$INIT completes execution. The context argument is the address of a longword of unspecified interpretation that is used to convey context between encryption operations. input type: char_string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor Ciphertext record that ENCRYPT$DECRYPT is to decrypt. The input argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to a byte- aligned buffer containing the input record to the decryption operation. output type: char_string access: write only mechanism: by descriptor Plaintext record that results when ENCRYPT$DECRYPT completes execution. The output argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to a byte-aligned padding buffer that will contain the output record from the decryption operation. If the descriptor is dynamic and insufficient space is allocated to contain the output record, storage will be allocated from dynamic memory. If insufficient space exists to contain the output of the operation, then an error status is returned. The ENCRYPT$DECRYPT routine adjusts the length of the output descriptor, if possible, to reflect the actual length of the output string. If the descriptor type is not DSC$K_DTYPE_VS (varying string), DSC$K_DTYPE_V (varying), or DSC$K_DTYPE_D (dynamic), the routine takes the actual output count from the output-length argument. The output buffer must be able to accommodate a padded block to an increment of the block length. For AES this is 16 bytes and for DES, eight bytes. output-length type: word integer access: write only mechanism: by reference Optional argument. Number of bytes that ENCRYPT$DECRYPT wrote to the output buffer. The output-length argument is the address of a word containing the number of bytes written to the output buffer, including any bytes of pad characters generated by the selected algorithm to meet length requirements of the input buffer, if any. Output length does not count padding in the case of a fixed-length string. Some encryption algorithms have specific requirements for the length of the input and output strings. In particular, DESECB and DESCBC pad input data with from 1 to 7 bytes to form complete 64-bit blocks for operation. The values of the pad characters are indeterminate. When you decrypt fewer than 8 bytes, present the full 8 bytes resulting from the ENCRYPT$ENCRYPT to ENCRYPT$DECRYPT. Retain the byte count of the input data in order to strip trailing pad bytes after a subsequent decryption operation. Note that the AES block mode algorithms (AESCBCxxx and AESECBxxx), pad the data to even 16 byte block boundaries. For AES, one byte encrypts and decrypts to 16 bytes, 72 bytes to 80, and so forth. The AES padding character is a HEX number of bytes indicating the number of bytes padded, for example, the one byte encrypted pad would decrypt to 15 characters of 0F following the one decrypted byte of data. For the 72 bytes of data, eight bytes of padding characters (08 08 ... 08), would follow the 72 bytes of decrypted data. DESECB and DESCBC modes always pad with characters of zeros. The character stream modes (AESCFBxxx, AESOFBxxx, DESCFB), do not pad the data, so the output-length will match the actual number of data bytes. p1 type: quadword[1](DES), quadword[2](AES) access: read only mechanism: by reference Optional argument. The p1 argument is the address of a quadword initialization vector used to seed the two modes of the DES algorithm for which it is applicable (DESECB and DESCFB). (That is, the DES IV initialization vector is a quadword reference, to an eight byte value.) For AES, the optional P1 argument for the AES IV initialization vector is a reference to a 16 byte (two quadwords) value. If this argument is omitted, the initialization vector used is the residue of the previous use of the specified context block. ENCRYPT$INIT initializes the context block with an initialization vector of zero.