-----Original Message----- From: Aaron Schneider On 16/07/2012 22:16, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > 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 > > > The commands you show work correctly with older version of the software. Specifically, I've tried this:
mcrypt-2.6.7-1.tar.bz2 libmcrypt4-2.5.8-1.tar.bz2 libmcrypt-2.5.8-1.tar.bz2 Although on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS latest versions of mcrypt and libmcrypts work with these two commands. -----END Original Message----- It looks like this could be a Cygwin issue then. As alternatives, it seems that ccrypt and openssl work just fine: $ echo "abcde" | ccrypt -u -K xyz | ccrypt -d -u -K xyz abcde $ echo "abcde" | openssl des -k xyz | openssl des -d -k xyz abcde $ crypt, OTOH, seems also to be broken, if I'm using it correctly (no man page or --help option): $ echo "abcde" | crypt xyz | crypt xyz abA7GTEBsFqY6 $ If these utilities are broken, maybe they should be fixed or removed from the distribution. --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
