mostly works now, except for decrypting the file, but not getting any helpful error messages from SubtleCrypto to fix this

src/App.svelte

@@ -2,10 +2,18 @@
   import EncryptButton from './lib/EncryptButton.svelte'
   import PasswordButton from './lib/PasswordButton.svelte';
   import DecryptButton from './lib/DecryptButton.svelte';
+  import { errorMessage } from './lib/generalStore';
+
+  let errorMessageContent
+  errorMessage.subscribe( value => {
+    errorMessageContent = value;
+  });
 </script>
 
 <main>
   <h1>Encrypt and decrypt files</h1>
+  {errorMessageContent}
+
 
   <div class="container">
       <EncryptButton />

src/lib/DecryptButton.svelte

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <script lang="ts">
   import { onMount } from 'svelte';
     import { escape } from 'svelte/internal';
-  import { decrypt, encrypt } from './cryptlib';
+  import { decryptFileContent } from './cryptlib';
   let filename: string = "";
   let originalFilename: string;
   
@@ -44,23 +44,18 @@
       return;
     }
     readFileContent(file).then((fileContent) => {
-      decrypt(atob(fileContent)).then(decryptedContent => {
-        console.log("Decrypted Base64: ", decryptedContent)
-        console.log(decodeURIComponent(decryptedContent));
-        const decodedData = decodeURIComponent(escape(atob((decryptedContent))));
-        const outputArray = new Uint8Array(decodedData.length)
-        for (let i = 0; i < decodedData.length; i++) {
-          outputArray[i] = decodedData.charCodeAt(i); // Populate the array with the decoded data
-        }
-        const outputFile = new Blob([outputArray], { type: 'application/octet-stream'});
-        let url = URL.createObjectURL(outputFile);
-        let a = document.createElement("a");
-        a.href = url;
-        a.download = originalFilename;
-  		  document.body.appendChild(a);
-  		  a.click();
-  		  document.body.removeChild(a);
+      let outputFile: Blob;
+      decryptFileContent(fileContent).then((outputArray) => { 
+      console.log(outputArray)
+      outputFile = new Blob([outputArray], { type: 'application/octet-stream'});
       });
+      let url = URL.createObjectURL(outputFile);
+      let a = document.createElement("a");
+      a.href = url;
+      a.download = originalFilename;
+  		document.body.appendChild(a);
+  		a.click();
+  		document.body.removeChild(a);
     });
 
   }

src/lib/EncryptButton.svelte

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <script lang="ts">
   import { onMount } from 'svelte';
-  import { encrypt } from './cryptlib';
-  let filename: string;
+  import { encryptFile } from './cryptlib';
+  let filename: string = "";
   
   function convertToBase64(blob: File): Promise<string> {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
@@ -17,7 +17,16 @@
     });
   }
 
-
+  function downloadAsFile(string) {
+      let encrypted_file: Blob = new Blob([string], {type: "text/plain"});
+      let url = URL.createObjectURL(encrypted_file);
+      let a = document.createElement("a");
+      a.href = url;
+      a.download = filename + ".crypt";
+		  document.body.appendChild(a);
+		  a.click();
+		  document.body.removeChild(a);
+      }
 
   let file: File | undefined;
 
@@ -34,22 +43,12 @@
     }
     filename = file.name;
     console.log("Uploaded ", filename)
-    convertToBase64(file).then((base64) => {
-      encrypt(base64).then((encrypted_content => {
-      console.log(encrypted_content)
-      let encrypted_b64: string = btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(encrypted_content)));
-      let encrypted_file: Blob = new Blob([encrypted_b64], {type: "text/plain"});
-      let url = URL.createObjectURL(encrypted_file);
-      let a = document.createElement("a");
-      a.href = url;
-      a.download = filename + ".crypt";
-		  document.body.appendChild(a);
-		  a.click();
-		  document.body.removeChild(a);
-      }));
+    encryptFile(file).then(base64String => {
+      downloadAsFile(base64String)
     })
 
   }
+
 </script>
 <style>
   .upload-button {

src/lib/cryptlib.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 //import crypto from 'crypto'
 import { globalPassword } from './pwgen';
+import { errorMessage } from './generalStore';
 let password: string;
-let salt;
-let ciphertext;
-let iv;
+let salt: Uint8Array;
+let ciphertext: BufferSource;
+let iv: Uint8Array;
 globalPassword.subscribe(value => {
   password = value;
 })
@@ -33,12 +34,14 @@ function getKeyMaterial() {
 /*
 Given some key material and some random salt
 derive an AES-GCM key using PBKDF2.
+Using the Password itself as salt isn't really a great idea, but this is not a hyper secure implementation yet
 */
-function getKey(keyMaterial, salt) {
+function getKey(keyMaterial: CryptoKey) {
+  let enc = new TextEncoder();
   return window.crypto.subtle.deriveKey(
     {
       "name": "PBKDF2",
-      salt: salt, 
+      salt: enc.encode(password), 
       "iterations": 100000,
       "hash": "SHA-256"
     },
@@ -55,13 +58,12 @@ to encrypt the message.
 Update the "ciphertextValue" box with a representation of part of
 the ciphertext.
 */
-export async function encrypt(string: string) {
-  let dec = new TextDecoder();
+export async function encryptFile(file: File) {
   let keyMaterial = await getKeyMaterial();
-  salt = window.crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(16));
-  let key = await getKey(keyMaterial, salt);
+  let key = await getKey(keyMaterial);
   iv = window.crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(12));
-  let encoded = getStringEncoding(string);
+  const fileReader = new FileReader();
+  let byteArray = await file.arrayBuffer();
 
   ciphertext = await window.crypto.subtle.encrypt(
     {
@@ -69,11 +71,10 @@ export async function encrypt(string: string) {
       iv: iv
     },
     key,
-    encoded
+    byteArray
   );
-  let decodedCiphertext = dec.decode(ciphertext);
-  return decodedCiphertext
-
+  const base64Encoded = btoa(String.fromCharCode(... new Uint8Array(ciphertext)));
+  return base64Encoded
 }
 
 /*
@@ -84,9 +85,24 @@ update the "decryptedValue" box with the decrypted value.
 If there was an error decrypting,
 update the "decryptedValue" box with an error message.
 */
-export async function decrypt(encryptedContent) {
+export async function decryptFileContent(base64Encoded: string) {
+  //prepare cryptography
   let keyMaterial = await getKeyMaterial();
-  let key = await getKey(keyMaterial, salt);
+  console.log(keyMaterial)
+  let key = await getKey(keyMaterial);
+  
+  //Remove anything form the Base64 String that isn't base64
+  const cleanString = base64Encoded.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9+/=]/g, '');
+
+  // create Uint8 Array from base64 string
+  let encryptedString = atob(cleanString)
+  console.log(encryptedString)
+  const encryptedContent = new Uint8Array(encryptedString.length)
+  for (let i = 0; i < encryptedString.length; i++) {
+      encryptedContent[i] = encryptedString.charCodeAt(i); // Populate the array with the decoded data
+    }
+  console.log(encryptedContent)
+  const encryptedContentBuffer: ArrayBuffer = encryptedContent.buffer;
 
   try {
     let decrypted = await window.crypto.subtle.decrypt(
@@ -95,14 +111,13 @@ export async function decrypt(encryptedContent) {
         iv: iv      
       },
       key,
-      encryptedContent
+      encryptedContentBuffer
     );
-
-    let dec = new TextDecoder();
-    return dec.decode(decrypted);
+    return decrypted;
   } catch (e) {
     console.log(e)
-    return `Decryption error: ${e}`
+    errorMessage.set(`Can not decrypt file: ${e}`)
+
   }
 }
 // Hacked together version of https://github.com/mdn/dom-examples/blob/main/web-crypto/derive-key/pbkdf2.jshttps://gist.github.com/ChaoLiangSuper/0e13f77712b68682f0d8ebabb2d63aa8

src/lib/generalStore.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
 import { writable} from 'svelte/store';
 
 export let filename = writable("Encrypted.b64");
+export let encryptSource = writable<File>();
+export let encryptTarget = writable();
+export let decryptSource = writable();
+export let decryptDestination = writable<File>();
+export let errorMessage = writable<string>("");