Decrypt AES 128 encrypted file with a key file

Question

I have a file which is encrypted using AES 128 and I have a key file whose size is 48 bytes. How can I decrypt the file using the key file?

The key file has no extension, I opened it in notepad and it has bizarre text. I have IV as 0x496daa1c6914000e408c65cead91fc29.

I don't know the cipher used for encryption but my guess is 80% for CBC.

Edit: More Info-> I am trying to decrypt an HLS stream, the m3u8 file has this line #EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="k/timestamp",IV=0x496daa1c6914000e408c65cead91fc29 which indicates that the file named "timestamp" is the key file, but its size is 48 bytes.

I am using Windows 10 but can switch over to Linux.

I don't know the OS used for encryption and the thing(OpenSSL,enc) that is used for encryption.

I am completely new to encryption and decryption.

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Edit: More Info-> I am trying to decrypt an HLS stream, the m3u8 file has this line

#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="k/timestamp",IV=0x496daa1c6914000e408c65cead91fc29

which indicates that the file named "timestamp" is the key file, but its size is 48 bytes.

RFC8216 describes how a HLS segment has to be encrypted / decrypted. In your playlist the method is AES-128 :

• according to section 4.2.3.4, the encryption algorithm should be AES with 128-bit key and Cipher Block Chaining (CBC).
• also in section 5.1, the key file should contain 16 octets in binary format, which means the file size has to be 16 bytes, 48 bytes is definitely the wrong size. You can check the content of the key file in hex form using tools like xxd ,don't open it directly by Notepad

How can I decrypt the file using the key file?

I don't know the OS used for encryption and the thing(OpenSSL,enc) that is used for encryption.

the simplest way of verification is to decrypt the file using openSSL command. (I think it is still easier than build a http server for key file and write web/mobile front-end with software packages which support HLS..... which might take more time ....)

openssl  aes-128-cbc  -d -K <YOUR_KEY_HEX_STRING> \
   -iv <YOUR_IV_HEX_STRING>  -in  /path/to/origin_file \
   -out /path/to/processed_file

Both of the segment file and initialization section file (if fMP4 is applied) can be decrypted using the command above.