Hello all. This is my first mail to the list as I'm not any kind of advanced user of openssl.
I'm doing my "homework" about openssl, but this question have 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? So I started playing with "openssl enc" and 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 searching the openssl lists and found nothing about this behavior. What can be happening? Is it about the 64 bit versionof openssl? Thanks a lot for your attention. Regards. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
