**SPAM** Re: Little help please...
Tod Thomas
tthomas at chubb.com
Wed Jun 1 13:09:27 CEST 2005
Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2005 09:46:23 -0400, Tod Thomas said:
>
>
>>err = gcry_cipher_setkey(hd, key, keylen);
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>
> Use a fixed key for testing, like
>
> err = gcry_cipher_setkey(hd, "123456789abcdef0", 16 );
This triggered something that led me to solve my problem. My key length
was too short, for some reason I thought the key length was variable.
Oddly though, none of the API calls flagged me for an invalid key length...
>>gcry_cipher_decrypt(hd,decryptedtext,strlen(ciphertext),ciphertext,strlen(ciphertext));
>
>
> This won't work: You can't use strlen on CIPHERTEXT becuase that one
> is binary.
Won't it? All strings ultimately are just binary data.
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
> Werner
Thanks for your help.
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