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[nycphp-talk] mcrypt_decrypt- null bytes

Jeff Siegel jsiegel1 at optonline.net
Sun Mar 7 11:53:42 EST 2004


Additionally, I'm base64_encoding the string and then serializing it 
before storing it in a database.

Jeff
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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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