On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Brian Dunning <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just wanted to ping this, as it's becoming a serious problem. I hope someone can help.
>
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> On Feb 11, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Brian Dunning wrote:
>
>> Hey all -
>>
>> I'm using mcrypt to store credit cards into MySQL. About 90% of them decrypt fine, but about 10% decrypt as nonsense ("b1ï\ïJEÃUïAïïï" is a good example). Maybe there is a character that appears in about 10% of my encryptions that's not being encoded properly???
>>
>> // Encryption is set up at the top of the script:
>> $crypto = mcrypt_module_open('rijndael-256', '', 'ofb', '');
>> $iv = mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($crypto), MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM);
>> $ks = mcrypt_enc_get_key_size($crypto);
>> $key = substr(md5('my_funky_term'), 0, $ks);
>>
>> // When the card number is collected by the form, it's encrypted:
>> $cc_number = addslashes($_POST['cc_number']);
>> mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $iv);
>> $cc_encrypt = mcrypt_generic($crypto, $cc_number);
>> mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);
>>
>> // This is written to the database:
>> $query = "update accounts set cc_encrypt='$cc_encrypt', encrypt_iv='$iv', other_fields='$other_stuff' where id='$account_id' limit 1";
>> $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
>>
>> Both the cc_encrypt and encrypt_iv fields are tinytext, latin1_swedish_ci, MyISAM, MySQL 5.0.91
>>
>> In another script, when I retrieve, I first set it up at the top of the script exactly like step #1 above, then retrieve it like this:
>>
>> mcrypt_generic_init($crypto, $key, $row['encrypt_iv']);
>> $cc_number = trim(mdecrypt_generic($crypto, $row['cc_encrypt']));
>> mcrypt_generic_deinit($crypto);
>>
>> Most of them are good, a few of them are bad. Can anyone see anything I'm doing wrong or a case I'm not covering? Thanks much.
>>
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Could it be that the addslashes is creating a \0 (null) value? That
might screw up the decryption routine.
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