Hello all. I tried the openssl-users list but I think this may be a question for the devel list:
I'm doing my "homework" about openssl, but *this question has nothing to do with it*. It's just a doubt that arised while doing it. There is one exercise with the following text: -------- Con el comando “openssl enc” y la siguiente clave AES: 188458A6D15034DFE386F23B61D43774 se puede descifrar cierta información. Podrías decir cual? -------- Using the command " openssl enc" and the following AES key: 188458A6D15034DFE386F23B61D43774 you can decode some information, could you say what? I started playing with "openssl enc" and I thought the only thing I could "guess" was the salt (Surely I'm wrong). So I ran the command with a random IV: openssl enc -aes128 -K 188458A6D15034DFE386F23B61D43774 -iv 1 -P I found that the salt varies as it should on two machines with 32 bit CPU (not my main one): Office's computer (openssl 0.9.8g-4ubuntu2): salt=4075DFB76496F2B7 salt=4045D8B76466EBB7 salt=40C5DAB764E6EDB7 salt=4015DEB76436F1B7 salt=4025DFB76446F2B7 A server I have somewhere else (openssl 0.9.8c-4etch1): salt=50D882BF0C000000 salt=B05DD9BF0C000000 salt=A0CCC7BF0C000000 salt=E0C88BBF0C000000 salt=204190BF0C000000 But when I run it on my main computer, it always outputs the same salt! This machine is a 64bit CPU, running a 64bits linux distribution (openssl 0.9.8g-4ubuntu2): salt=0004000000000000 salt=0004000000000000 salt=0004000000000000 salt=0004000000000000 I've been searching through the openssl lists and found nothing about this behavior. What can be happening? Is it about the 64 bit version of openssl? Thanks a lot for your attention. Regards. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
