I am seeing an mcrypt problem with short plaintext strings. I don't have a Linux box to compare results, so I don't know if this is an upstream or a Cygwin issue.
$ mcrypt --version Mcrypt v.2.6.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) Linked against libmcrypt v.2.5.8 Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Nikos Mavroyanopoulos (n...@gnutls.org) $ Longer strings seem to work: $ echo abcdef | mcrypt -q -k xyz | mcrypt -dq -k xyz abcdef $ But shorter ones not so much: $ echo abcde | mcrypt -q -k xyz | mcrypt -dq -k xyz abâ–’$ --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple