From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T01:55:21+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I (really) encrypt a string in ruby?

From: "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@gmail.com>

> However, encrypting 2.0M file gives 2.1M file.
> Since doing encryption in C makes 2.0M ciphertext from 2.0M plaintext,
> and it is also possible to decrypt the 2.0M ciphertext to the original
> plaintext, something is rotten here.

Any chance you're using Windows?  Maybe it's a "text mode" vs. "binary mode"
problem?  (LF -> CRLF in the output)

If you're on Windows, try:

STDIN.binmode
STDOUT.binmode

at the top of your script?


HTH,

Bill