PBKDF2 implementation in C# with Rfc2898DeriveBytes

Guys, I'm trying to implement a PBKDF2 function in C# that creates a WPA Shared key. I've found some here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163913.aspx that seems to produce a valid result, but it's one byte too short... and the wrong PSK value.

To test the output, I am comparing it to this: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/wpapsk.html or http://anandam.name/pbkdf2/

I did find one way of getting this to work with a built in library to C# called Rfc2898DeriveBytes. Using this, I get a valid output using:

Rfc2898DeriveBytes k3 = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(pwd1, salt1, 4096);
byte[] answers = k3.GetBytes(32);

Now, the one limitation I have using Rfc2898DeriveBytes is the "salt" must be 8 octets long. If it is shorter, the Rfc2898DeriveBytes throws an exception. I was thinking all I had to do was pad the salt (if it was shorter) to 8 bytes, and I'd be good. But NO! I've tried pretty much every combination of padding with a shorter salt, but I cannot duplicate the results I get from those two websites above.

So bottom line is, does this mean the Rfc2898DeriveBytes just simply won't work with a source salt shorter than 8 bytes? If so, does anyone know of any C# code I could use that implements PBKDF2 for WPA Preshared key?

c# pbkdf2 rfc2898

Edit Report

Here is an implementation that does not require the 8 byte salt.

You can calculate a WPA key as follows:

Rfc2898DeriveBytes rfc2898 = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(passphrase, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(name), 4096);
key = rfc2898.GetBytes(32);

public class Rfc2898DeriveBytes : DeriveBytes
    {
        const int BlockSize = 20;
        uint block;
        byte[] buffer;
        int endIndex;
        readonly HMACSHA1 hmacsha1;
        uint iterations;
        byte[] salt;
        int startIndex;

        public Rfc2898DeriveBytes(string password, int saltSize)
            : this(password, saltSize, 1000)
        {
        }

        public Rfc2898DeriveBytes(string password, byte[] salt)
            : this(password, salt, 1000)
        {
        }

        public Rfc2898DeriveBytes(string password, int saltSize, int iterations)
        {
            if (saltSize < 0)
            {
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("saltSize");
            }
            byte[] data = new byte[saltSize];
            new RNGCryptoServiceProvider().GetBytes(data);
            Salt = data;
            IterationCount = iterations;
            hmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1(new UTF8Encoding(false).GetBytes(password));
            Initialize();
        }

        public Rfc2898DeriveBytes(string password, byte[] salt, int iterations) : this(new UTF8Encoding(false).GetBytes(password), salt, iterations)
        {
        }

        public Rfc2898DeriveBytes(byte[] password, byte[] salt, int iterations)
        {
            Salt = salt;
            IterationCount = iterations;
            hmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1(password);
            Initialize();
        }

        static byte[] Int(uint i)
        {
            byte[] bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(i);
            byte[] buffer2 = new byte[] {bytes[3], bytes[2], bytes[1], bytes[0]};
            if (!BitConverter.IsLittleEndian)
            {
                return bytes;
            }
            return buf


                        
                        
                            answered 2010-06-16T17:52:51.473

PBKDF2 implementation in C# with Rfc2898DeriveBytes

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