from Crypto.Cipher import AES from Crypto.Util.Padding import unpad # Read Key with open('key', 'rb') as f: aes_key = f.read() cipher = AES.new(aes_key, AES.MODE_CBC) # Read message and decrypt with open('ctext', 'rb') as f: ciphertext = f.read() plaintext = unpad(cipher.decrypt(ciphertext), 16) print(f'Plaintext: {plaintext}')