Hi,

Environment: VB 2005 Professional

Both ends, its the application which is doing the functionalities.
At the despatch end, We have a text file which is to be compressed and
encrypted and sent over to the recepient.
At the recepient end, the file is decrypted and then decompressed.

Say the original file is CreateTestPort3.txt
CreateTestPort3.txt: 1306 KB (original file)

TestGZipped:151 KB (compressing the original file using GZipStream)

EncryptText:151 KB (encrypting the compressed file)

DecryptText: 76 KB (decrypting the earlier file)

CreateTestPort3GOriginal: 0 KB (decompressing the file)

We receive an error at this stage:

Error : An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.InvalidDataException'
occurred in System.dll

Additional information: The magic number in GZip header is not correct. Make
sure you are passing in a GZip stream.


Can anyone point out what are we doing wrong? If we just compress and
decompress the file using the same code, its perfect. If we encrypt and
decrypt the file using the same class, its perfect. But if we do the
combination of compression and encryption, the file is totally messed up.
Any reasons?

For the sake of testing, we did both the functionalities of recepient and
despatch end in the same project...

The code for above is here:

Dim SecKey As String = "Tashgktt"

Private Sub cmdComGZipped_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles cmdComGZipped.Click
Dim outfile, infile As FileStream

Dim zipStream As GZipStream

Dim sw As StreamWriter

Dim sr As StreamReader

Dim ms As MemoryStream

Dim info As FileInfo

infile = New FileStream("Y:\CreateTestPort3.txt", FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read)

outfile = New FileStream("Y:\TestGZipped.xip", FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write)

zipStream = New GZipStream(outfile, CompressionMode.Compress, False)

sr = New StreamReader(infile)

sw = New StreamWriter(zipStream)

Do While Not sr.EndOfStream

sw.WriteLine(sr.ReadLine)

Loop

sw.Close()

sr.Close()

zipStream.Close() ' important to close this first to flush compressed stream

outfile.Close() ' important to close this second to flush output stream

infile.Close()



info = New FileInfo("Y:\TestGZipped.Xip")

MsgBox(info.Length.ToString)

'//Encrypt the file

EncryptFile("Y:\TestGZipped.xip", "Y:\EncryptText.enc", SecKey)

End Sub



Private Sub cmdDecomGZipped_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles cmdDecomGZipped.Click

Dim outfile, infile As FileStream '

Dim ZipStream As GZipStream

Dim sw As StreamWriter

Dim sr As StreamReader

Dim info As FileInfo

'//Decrypt the file

DecryptFile("Y:\EncryptText.enc", "Y:\DecryptText.XIP", SecKey)

infile = New FileStream("Y:\DecryptText.XIP", FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read)

outfile = New FileStream("Y:\CreateTestPort3GOriginal.txt", FileMode.Create,
FileAccess.Write)

ZipStream = New GZipStream(infile, CompressionMode.Decompress, False)

sr = New StreamReader(ZipStream)

sw = New StreamWriter(outfile)

Do While Not sr.EndOfStream

sw.WriteLine(sr.ReadLine)

Loop

sw.Close()

sr.Close()

ZipStream.Close() ' important to close this first to flush compressed stream

outfile.Close() ' important to close this second to flush output stream

infile.Close()

info = New FileInfo("Y:\CreateTestPort3GOriginal.txt")

MsgBox(info.Length.ToString)


End Sub

Error : An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.InvalidDataException'
occurred in System.dll

Additional information: The magic number in GZip header is not correct. Make
sure you are passing in a GZip stream.


The Encrypt/Decrypt is done by the following:

Imports System.IO

Imports System.Security.Cryptography

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Imports System.Text

Module EncryptDecrypt

' Call this function to remove the key from memory after it is used for
security.

<DllImport("kernel32.dll")> _

Public Sub ZeroMemory(ByVal addr As IntPtr, ByVal size As Integer)

End Sub

' Function to generate a 64-bit key.

Function GenerateKey() As String

' Create an instance of a symmetric algorithm. The key and the IV are
generated automatically.

Dim desCrypto As DESCryptoServiceProvider =
DESCryptoServiceProvider.Create()

' Use the automatically generated key for encryption.

Return ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(desCrypto.Key)

End Function

Sub EncryptFile(ByVal sInputFilename As String, _

ByVal sOutputFilename As String, _

ByVal sKey As String)

Dim fsInput As New FileStream(sInputFilename, _

FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)

Dim fsEncrypted As New FileStream(sOutputFilename, _

FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)

'Dim Key = sKey

'Dim IV = sKey

Dim DES As New DESCryptoServiceProvider()

'Set secret key for DES algorithm.

'A 64-bit key and an IV are required for this provider.

DES.Key = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sKey)

'Set the initialization vector.

DES.IV = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sKey)

'Create the DES encryptor from this instance.

Dim desencrypt As ICryptoTransform = DES.CreateEncryptor()

'Create the crypto stream that transforms the file stream by using DES
encryption.

Dim cryptostream As New CryptoStream(fsEncrypted, _

desencrypt, _

CryptoStreamMode.Write)

'Read the file text to the byte array.

Dim bytearrayinput(fsInput.Length - 1) As Byte

fsInput.Read(bytearrayinput, 0, bytearrayinput.Length)

'Write out the DES encrypted file.

cryptostream.Write(bytearrayinput, 0, bytearrayinput.Length)

cryptostream.Close()

fsInput.Close()

fsEncrypted.Close()

End Sub

Sub DecryptFile(ByVal sInputFilename As String, _

ByVal sOutputFilename As String, _

ByVal sKey As String)

'Dim Key = sKey

'Dim IV = sKey

Dim DES As New DESCryptoServiceProvider()

'A 64-bit key and an IV are required for this provider.

'Set the secret key for the DES algorithm.

DES.Key() = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sKey)

'Set the initialization vector.

DES.IV = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sKey)

'Create the file stream to read the encrypted file back.

Dim fsread As New FileStream(sInputFilename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)

'Create the DES decryptor from the DES instance.

Dim desdecrypt As ICryptoTransform = DES.CreateDecryptor()

'Create the crypto stream set to read and to do a DES decryption transform
on incoming bytes.

Dim cryptostreamDecr As New CryptoStream(fsread, desdecrypt,
CryptoStreamMode.Read)

'Print out the contents of the decrypted file.

Dim fsDecrypted As New StreamWriter(sOutputFilename)

fsDecrypted.Write(New StreamReader(cryptostreamDecr).ReadToEnd)

fsDecrypted.Flush()

fsDecrypted.Close()

fsread.Close()

cryptostreamDecr.Close()

End Sub

End Module

Show quote Hide quote You should not be using StreamReaders or StreamWriters against your
compressed or encrypted streams: they assume the binary streams contain
encoded text, which is not the case here.  Stick to System.IO.Stream and
read and write using Stream methods directly.

David

AnikSol <anisol@community.nospam> wrote:

<snip>

Clearly the encryption/decryption is *not* valid on its own - that much
is clear from the fact that you can't decrypt the encrypted data and
get the same size.

By the looks of it, the problem is that you're using a StreamReader on
the encrypted file. StreamReaders deal with *text*, not arbitrary
binary data - and compressed data is effectively arbitrary binary data.
I'm sure you'll find that the encryption/decryption fails on its own if
you try to encrypt/decrypt a binary file like an image.

You should write the decrypted data by reading a chunk from the
decryption stream, writing it to the file stream, then reading a chunk,
etc, until you've read everything.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/readbinary.html for more on
this.

At a quick glance, it looks like your compression is assuming text data
as well: it shouldn't. Compression and encryption should generally work
on just binary data. That way *any* file should come through correctly,
whether it's text or not.

Jon and David,

Thanks for the advise.


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