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discrepancy in decryption when two encrypted strings are appended

Posted by Saif on July 05, 2001 at 8:49 AM

hi,

i'm facing a peculiar problem. i need to encrypt two different strings using the same key, then concatinate the encrypted strings. later i read the number of encrypted bytes of the first string from the concatinated string and decrypt it using the same key. the decryption yields only part of the original string the rest is garbage.

on the other hand if i decrypt the first string without concatinating it, it yields the original string.

so the problem lies in concatinating the two encrypted strings, which i do using the StringBuffer class and FileInputStreams.

can someone help me out with this ?

i hope there is no ambiguity in understanding the problem...if so please contact me at safaruqui@graffiti.net

thx

saif