(forgot to copy the list) On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
Is it possible that 4% of the time, you have spaces on the start/end of the string, which get trimmed before encryption?
In this case, no. In trying to simplify the situation to narrow the possibilities of error, I am generating "random" character strings of only alphanumeric (or numeric-only) characters. Each is exactly 16 characters.
And if rijndael is one of the algorithms which requires a fixed-size input, that also would be "bad" to trim it.
No documentation that I was able to find suggests that requirement.
Actually, I'd suggest that the encryption function has no business trimming the text anyway.
Philosophically I agree with you, but mCrypt has this nasty habit of appending bunches of nulls to the decrypted string. So philosophical purity gives way to practical application.
Good ideas, as usual. Thank you. Ken -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
