Bits of Wisdom

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I stumbled upon a problem with the mcrypt library – when decoding (using DES and ECB mode) the encoded string is trailed with leading non-printalbe ASCII characters.  So an encoded “mysecret1” becomes “mysecret1”.

Not shure what causes it, but i found a hack to get rid of those nasty low ASCII chars:


$password = preg_replace("/[\\x00-\\x1F]/", "", $password);


In the hope to serve more people the pain of fiddling with this, I’ll keep some programming-snipplets in english.

Situation: you have HEX codes and need binary

Solution:

function hex2bin ($hex) {
    return pack("H*", $hex);
}