diff --git a/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/oracle.ts b/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/oracle.ts
index ac88228ef08d..9b91327c5f9b 100644
--- a/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/oracle.ts
+++ b/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/oracle.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { EventSelector, FunctionSelector } from '@aztec/foundation/abi';
 import { AztecAddress } from '@aztec/foundation/aztec-address';
 import { Fr, Point } from '@aztec/foundation/fields';
 import { createDebugLogger } from '@aztec/foundation/log';
+import { to2Fields } from '@aztec/foundation/serialize';
 
 import { type ACVMField } from '../acvm_types.js';
 import { frToBoolean, frToNumber, fromACVMField } from '../deserialize.js';
@@ -378,4 +379,22 @@ export class Oracle {
     );
     return toAcvmEnqueuePublicFunctionResult(enqueuedRequest);
   }
+
+  encrypt([symmetricKey]: ACVMField[], [initializationVector]: ACVMField[], plaintext: ACVMField[]): ACVMField[] {
+    // Symmetric key and initialization vector (IV) are 16 bytes and we store them as big endian in Fr
+    const processedSK = fromACVMField(symmetricKey).toBuffer().subarray(0, 16);
+    const processedIV = fromACVMField(initializationVector).toBuffer().subarray(0, 16);
+    // TODO(benesjan): we could save some info here by not including the 2 empty bits at the end of each serialized
+    // field --> this could be valuable as the ciphertext will go on-chain
+    const processedPlaintext = Buffer.concat(plaintext.map(fromACVMField).map(f => f.toBuffer()));
+    const ciphertext = this.typedOracle.encrypt(processedSK, processedIV, processedPlaintext);
+    // Chunk the ciphertext buffer to 32 bytes and on each chunk call to2Fields function
+    const ciphertextFields: Fr[] = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < ciphertext.length; i += Fr.SIZE_IN_BYTES) {
+      const chunk = ciphertext.subarray(i, i + Fr.SIZE_IN_BYTES);
+      ciphertextFields.push(...to2Fields(chunk));
+    }
+
+    return ciphertextFields.map(toACVMField);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/typed_oracle.ts b/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/typed_oracle.ts
index 70f57233af17..3a0ebe415e30 100644
--- a/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/typed_oracle.ts
+++ b/yarn-project/simulator/src/acvm/oracle/typed_oracle.ts
@@ -233,4 +233,8 @@ export abstract class TypedOracle {
   ): Promise<PublicCallRequest> {
     throw new OracleMethodNotAvailableError('enqueuePublicFunctionCall');
   }
+
+  encrypt(_symmetricKey: Buffer, _initializationVector: Buffer, _plaintext: Buffer): Buffer {
+    throw new OracleMethodNotAvailableError('encrypt');
+  }
 }
diff --git a/yarn-project/simulator/src/client/client_execution_context.ts b/yarn-project/simulator/src/client/client_execution_context.ts
index 0ec755281ccb..618cca083ce6 100644
--- a/yarn-project/simulator/src/client/client_execution_context.ts
+++ b/yarn-project/simulator/src/client/client_execution_context.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import {
   type SideEffect,
   type TxContext,
 } from '@aztec/circuits.js';
-import { type Grumpkin } from '@aztec/circuits.js/barretenberg';
+import { Aes128, type Grumpkin } from '@aztec/circuits.js/barretenberg';
 import { computePublicDataTreeLeafSlot, computeUniqueNoteHash, siloNoteHash } from '@aztec/circuits.js/hash';
 import { type FunctionAbi, type FunctionArtifact, countArgumentsSize } from '@aztec/foundation/abi';
 import { type AztecAddress } from '@aztec/foundation/aztec-address';
@@ -522,4 +522,9 @@ export class ClientExecutionContext extends ViewDataOracle {
     }
     return values;
   }
+
+  public override encrypt(symmetricKey: Buffer, initializationVector: Buffer, plaintext: Buffer): Buffer {
+    const aes128 = new Aes128();
+    return aes128.encryptBufferCBC(plaintext, initializationVector, symmetricKey);
+  }
 }