Cryptographic Token Interface Standard

PKCS#11

AES-CBC

AES-CBC, denoted CKM_AES_CBC, is a mechanism for single- and multiple-part encryption and decryption; key wrapping; and key unwrapping, based on NIST's Advanced Encryption Standard and cipher-block chaining mode.

It has a parameter, a 16-byte initialization vector.

This mechanism can wrap and unwrap any secret key. Of course, a particular token may not be able to wrap/unwrap every secret key that it supports. For wrapping, the mechanism encrypts the value of the CKA_VALUE attribute of the key that is wrapped, padded on the trailing end with up to block size minus one null bytes so that the resulting length is a multiple of the block size. The output data is the same length as the padded input data. It does not wrap the key type, key length, or any other information about the key; the application must convey these separately.

For unwrapping, the mechanism decrypts the wrapped key, and truncates the result according to the CKA_KEY_TYPE attribute of the template and, if it has one, and the key type supports it, the CKA_VALUE_LEN attribute of the template. The mechanism contributes the result as the CKA_VALUE attribute of the new key; other attributes required by the key type must be specified in the template.

Constraints on key types and the length of data are summarized in the following table: 




 Table 93, AES-CBC: Key And Data Length   
Function Key type 

Input length

 

Output length

 

Comments

   


C_Encrypt AES 

multiple of block size

 

same as input length

 

no final part

   


C_Decrypt AES 

multiple of block size

 

same as input length

 

no final part

   


C_WrapKey AES 

any

 

input length rounded up to multiple of the block size

  		    


C_UnwrapKey AES 

multiple of block size

 

determined by type of key being unwrapped or CKA_VALUE_LEN

 		   

 



For this mechanism, the ulMinKeySize and ulMaxKeySize  fields of the CK_MECHANISM_INFO structure specify the supported range of AES key sizes, in bytes.


 
 



RSA Security Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards - 
PKCS#11 - v211