That would work for me, but I have to deal with many files that I have already encrypted and no longer know the correct sizes of. My search and replace for the padding characters doesn't work because the files sometimes contain those padding characters.
-- Ben Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Conway (wwc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ben Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Padding with mcrypt_generic > I worked around this by padding the plaintext myself. Basically, add NUL > (character 0) bytes so that your plaintext becomes an exact multiple of > blocksize. Then change the very last byte to the number of padding bytes > used. If the plaintext is already an exact multiple of blocksize, then > pad with an entire block. > > On decryption, reverse the process, and you'll have your original string > back exactly the way you started. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
