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[Jeff Siegel]

You're on the right track.

Found the following:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mcrypt-generic.php

It notes that: "The data is padded with "\0" to make sure the length of 
the data is n * blocksize."

Jeff

Michael Southwell wrote:

> At 08:37 AM 3/7/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> When using mcrypt_decrypt, it seems to add null bytes when decrypting. 
>> The trim function gets rid of it but just wondering if the null bytes 
>> at the end is normal behavior.
> 
> 
> wild guess:  this has something to do with block mode:  see 
> function.mcrypt-enc-is-block-algorithm-mode.html
> 
> 
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