> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Schwartz > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: crypto library in openssl > > > > 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.
Quite reasonable, thanks. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
