| Help with hex initialization vector
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Sub_Seven
msg:4288814 | 2:18 am on Mar 29, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Hello everyone,
I am being requested to generate an initialization vector in hex code (16 characters) and I am unsure of a few things; I'm using this code to generate and echo the IV:
$size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_CAST_256, MCRYPT_MODE_CFB);
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv($size, MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM);
echo $iv;
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But what I get looks like this:
�HJ-�uj� �X))
My questions:
1. Is it supposed to be displayed with those unusual characters?
2. If yes to question #1 and that's how its supposed to be, there are 15 characters there, how can I make it 16 characters long?
I got caught in a complete new topic here, any help will be greatly welcome,
Thanks.
EDIT: When displayed in this forum it looks different than what I get in my page.
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Sub_Seven
msg:4289301 | 12:15 am on Mar 30, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Could someone help me a little here please?
Thanks
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coopster
msg:4289626 | 5:33 pm on Mar 30, 2011 (gmt 0) |
- Yes, it's encrypted.
- Use mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size [php.net] to see the size of the IV of the opened algorithm. I have never trimmed the IV. Leave that alone. Use the "get encrypted iv size" functions during decrypt to substring that part off the payload data.
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