Hi,
I'm trying to use aespipe, but it seems that when I encrypt a file, then decrypt it, the checksums don't match. Why is this?

fluxnet temp # aespipe <filename.old >filename.aes
Password:
fluxnet temp # aespipe -d <filename.aes >filename.new
Password:
fluxnet temp # md5sum *
5a79fb5e05fbf27afacdbdabf8579cb8 filename.old
4be2e33aca5096ef990e43f1e5759f4e filename.aes
2094eeb7e921c9425163d0bade710241 filename.new
fluxnet temp #

I know the passwords were right, I did it over again three or four times thinking I screwed the password up, but now I think I'm either using it wrong, or something is broken. Any ideas?

Nevermind I think I figured it out.

No, wait, I didn't. It looks like the file is the same, like if i write stuff in the file, encrypt it, then decrypt it, the stuff in the file looks identical, but still when I do md5sum on it, the checksum doesn't match. Even if I can't see the difference, there must be one, is it currupting data somewhere?

oxagast@fluxnet:~$ cat blah
hello my name is marshall
oxagast@fluxnet:~$ cat blah2
göXœÜ3BË•ÔS
ÀYWü¶¦*þÄoxagast@fluxnet:~$
oxagast@fluxnet:~$ cat blah3
hello my name is marshall
oxagast@fluxnet:~$
oxagast@fluxnet:~$ md5sum blah*
0d3fdef543fd110f47f33b36436e95b7 blah
c42cf246afd2493ca202934228b41cbb blah2
2160fa55a640d7510bb9b412850d4de0 blah3
oxagast@fluxnet:~$

Something is wrong, I just don't know what.

oxagast@fluxnet:~$ hexdump -C blah
00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 6d 79 20 6e 61 6d 65 20 69 73 |hello my name is|
00000010 20 6d 61 72 73 68 61 6c 6c 0a | marshall.|
0000001a
oxagast@fluxnet:~$ hexdump -C blah2
00000000 47 92 41 23 c2 bc 4c 80 95 d4 53 0d 67 f6 58 9c |G.A#..L...S.g.X.|
00000010 16 dc 33 42 cb 0c c0 59 57 fc 10 b6 a6 ad fe c4 |..3B...YW.......|
00000020
oxagast@fluxnet:~$ hexdump -C blah3
00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 6d 79 20 6e 61 6d 65 20 69 73 |hello my name is|
00000010 20 6d 61 72 73 68 61 6c 6c 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 | marshall.......|
00000020
oxagast@fluxnet:~$

Those last 6 sets of 0s arn't suppost to be there... Its like it forgot how long the original file was and never truncated the decrypted one.