I'm trying to encrypt some content in Python and decrypt it in a nodejs application.

I'm struggling to get the two AES implementations to work together though. Here is where I am at.

In node:

var crypto = require('crypto');

var password = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa';
var input = 'hello world';

var encrypt = function (input, password, callback) {
    var m = crypto.createHash('md5');
    m.update(password)
    var key = m.digest('hex');

    m = crypto.createHash('md5');
    m.update(password + key)
    var iv = m.digest('hex');

    // add padding
    while (input.length % 16 !== 0) {
        input += ' ';
    }

    var data = new Buffer(input, 'utf8').toString('binary');

    var cipher = crypto.createCipheriv('aes-256-cbc', key, iv.slice(0,16));
    var encrypted = cipher.update(data, 'binary') + cipher.final('binary');
    var encoded = new Buffer(encrypted, 'binary').toString('base64');

    callback(encoded);
};

var decrypt = function (input, password, callback) {
    // Convert urlsafe base64 to normal base64
    var input = input.replace('-', '+').replace('/', '_');
    // Convert from base64 to binary string
    var edata = new Buffer(input, 'base64').toString('binary')

    // Create key from password
    var m = crypto.createHash('md5');
    m.update(password)
    var key = m.digest('hex');

    // Create iv from password and key
    m = crypto.createHash('md5');
    m.update(password + key)
    var iv = m.digest('hex');

    // Decipher encrypted data
    var decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv('aes-256-cbc', key, iv.slice(0,16));
    var decrypted = decipher.update(edata, 'binary') + decipher.final('binary');
    var plaintext = new Buffer(decrypted, 'binary').toString('utf8');

    callback(plaintext);
};

encrypt(input, password, function (encoded) {
    console.log(encoded);
    decrypt(encoded, password, function (output) {
        console.log(output);
    });
});

This produces the output

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