I am specifying the key and IV and using the same hex based string for both.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Victor Duchovni<victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:51:10PM -0500, Hazel John wrote: > >> Hi, >> I need to encrypt simple strings to readable strings using the openssl >> command line (opessl enc with the -a option to return readable >> strings) and decrypt this in my code (c++/linux). I tried both the low >> level aes and evp functions and couldn't get the results to match. Is >> there a default padding used by the openssl command line? I tried >> using the cbc alogorithm and padded it with the null char and thought >> I can encrypt/decrypt correctly using openssl command line or my code, >> I cannot get the encrypted output to match. I am using BIO to base64 >> encode/decode in my program and that part works well. I am trying to >> match the encrypted output from my program to the encrypted output >> using the same cipher with openssl command line and cannot get a >> match. > > Are you using the same password-based key derivation function with the > same "salt" to derive the encryption key and IV? The "magic" string > and salt are prepended to the output of "openssl enc". > > -- > Viktor. > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-us...@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
