Hi Anthony,

that makes definitely sense for me. I encrypt data from pdf so I got the
whole 292 bytes at one go.

Thank you for your patience!
Rudy



Anthony Gabrielson-4 wrote:
> 
> Hi Rudy,
>    I added call when needed because EncryptUpdate can be called more than
> once, as long as EncryptFinal hasn't already been called.  Once
> EncryptFinal has been called your saying you have all the data you expect
> for that iteration.  So if your 292 bytes were coming in an iterations of
> N bytes you would just keep calling EncryptUpdate every N bytes once the
> final iteration came in you would finalize with EncryptFinal and move on
> to the next step in your code.  By your codes description, and my example,
> each is only needed once since all the data is already there.
> 
> That make sense?
> 
> Anthony
> 
> On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:10 AM, Rudy1 wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello Anthony,
>> 
>> thank you for you fast reply. I visited your blog and analyzed your
>> example.
>> There is one
>> question left. You added the comment "Call when needed" to your function
>> EVP_EncryptUpdate().
>> What does that mean? In my case I want to encrypt a string containing 292
>> bytes. After calling
>> EVP_EncryptUpdate_ex() the variable out_len = 288. Do I have to call
>> EVP_EncryptUpdate_ex() again
>> to encrypt the remaining 4 bytes? I thought the remaining bytes will be
>> encrypted by calling EVP_EncryptFinal_ex()
>> 
>> Rudy1
>> 
>> 
>> Anthony Gabrielson-4 wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello, 
>>> This seems to be a pretty typical question that gets posted often. I
>>> have
>>> a simple example that I think hits it. Anyway, its the first entry into
>>> a
>>> blog that I'm starting to building up. If your interested the code and
>>> (a
>>> brief) explanation is available here: 
>>> 
>>> http://agabrielson.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/openssl-an-example-from-the-command-line/#more-4
>>>  
>>> 
>>> One note - I didn't use the ex function; I used the older version. It
>>> should give you a slightly easier place to start from. 
>>> 
>>> Anthony 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Rudy1" <r...@compumatica.eu> 
>>> To: openssl-users@openssl.org 
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:37:38 AM 
>>> Subject: AES128 CBC 
>>> 
>>> I'm using the openssl crypto lib first time and I don't know how to
>>> encrypt text larger than blocksize (16 byte) . For example I want to
>>> encrypt a string of size 292 bytes. I call EVP_EncryptUpdate () one time
>>> and 288 bytes will be encrypted and finally I call
>>> EVP_EncryptFinal_ex().
>>> Do I really encrypt the whole string correctly? Or do I have to call
>>> EVP_EncryptUpdate () for every blocksize chunk of my string? How large
>>> is
>>> the encrypted string? I would expect 304 bytes (288 + 16). Is this
>>> correct? Rudy1 
>>> 
>>> View this message in context: AES128 CBC 
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>>> 
>>> 
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