Chilkat Crypt Pitfall

Question:
I am trying to encrypt a file using AES in a C# program and decrypt it in a C++ (non-managed code) program using the Chilkat components. Everything compiles, runs, etc and a file is output from the decryption method, it is just not decrypted correctly and is unreadable.

Any idea what I am missing? I assume it is a setting of some sort…

Here are the methods:

C#
private void EncryptFileAES()
      {
      Chilkat.Crypt2 cryptComponent = new Chilkat.Crypt2();
      bool bSuccess = cryptComponent.UnlockComponent("****");
	
      // Set the encryption parameters.
      cryptComponent.CryptAlgorithm = "rijndael"; //AES Encryption
      cryptComponent.SecretKey = cryptComponent.GenerateSecretKey("abc");
      cryptComponent.KeyLength = 256;
	
      //Encrypt the file
      cryptComponent.CkEncryptFile(srcFile, targetFile);
      }
	
C++
 DecryptFileAES()
{
      CkCrypt2 crypt;
      bool bret = crypt.UnlockComponent("***");
	
      crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("aes");
      crypt.put_KeyLength(256);
      CkByteData secretKey;
      crypt.GenerateSecretKey("abc", secretKey);
      crypt.put_SecretKey(secretKey);
	
      //Decrypt the file
      bool bret = crypt.CkDecryptFile(srcFile, destFile);
}

Answer:
The GenerateSecretKey method returns a byte array equal in length to the number of bits in
the KeyLength property. Therefore, it must be called *after* the KeyLength is set:

                cryptComponent.KeyLength = 256;
                cryptComponent.SecretKey = cryptComponent.GenerateSecretKey("abc");

(The default KeyLength is 128-bits, so the SecretKey will be 16 bytes if you call GenerateSecretKey prior to setting the KeyLength equal to 256.)

If you make this change in the C# code above, everything should work.