Re: Crypt_Blowfish encryption between to servers fail

Thomas Nilsen wrote: >Hope someone can shed some light on this issue. > >I want to encrypt data between two servers using cookies. I've been trying to use the Crypt >Blowfish pear class, but I'm not able to decrypt data sent between the two servers. > >A simple script like this generates a base64 encoded string on server A: > >include 'Crypt/Blowfish.php'; >$ob = new Crypt_Blowfish('test'); >$o = ($ob->encrypt('blowfish')); >print base64_encode($o); > >Then on server B, the following is executed: > >include 'Crypt/Blowfish.php'; >$ob = new Crypt_Blowfish('test'); >print $ob->decrypt(base64_decode(<output from $o on server A>)); > >But the output of the decrypted string is just gibberish. Also, comparing the plain output from >the two servers when encrypting the same text using the same key, generates two completely different >outputs. > >Is Blowfish not supposed to be transportable between two different systems? Seems a bit silly to >only be able to decode the data on the same system it was encrypted... > >Server A is a Fedora #3 and Server B is a RedHat EL AS 3.0 > >Regards, >Thomas Nilsen > >Linux- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack > > > > > Nope, it should work between servers, output should be the same regardless of what operating system you are on. If you could download the Crypt_Blowfish version from CVS, and run the tests and send me the results, as well as a phpinfo output from both servers, I will look into fixing this. Regards, -- Matthew