> But how to explain that passwords like "$dlkins02", "$flkins02", > and "$Elkins02" can be decrypted correctly? Only "$elkins02" is > decrypted into empty string.
Please read this over a few times and think long and hard about it: The decrypted data is *NOT* a C-style string, it's just an arbitrary chunk of data. So it *cannot* *possibly* be an empty string. If it's not a string, it cannot be an empty string because an empty string is a kind of string. DS ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
