mcrypt_encrypt to openssl_encrypt, and OPENSSL_ZERO_PADDING problems

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mcrypt_encrypt zero-pads input data if it’s not a multiple of the blocksize. This leads to ambiguous results if the data itself has trailing zeroes. Apparently OpenSSL doesn’t allow you to use zero padding in this case, which explains the false return value.

You can circumvent this by adding the padding manually. 

$message = "Lorem ipsum";
$key = "123456789012345678901234";
$iv = "12345678";

$message_padded = $message;
if (strlen($message_padded) % 8) {
    $message_padded = str_pad($message_padded,
        strlen($message_padded) + 8 - strlen($message_padded) % 8, "\0");
}
$encrypted_mcrypt = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_3DES, $key,
    $message, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv);
$encrypted_openssl = openssl_encrypt($message_padded, "DES-EDE3-CBC", 
    $key, OPENSSL_RAW_DATA | OPENSSL_NO_PADDING, $iv);

printf("%s => %s\n", bin2hex($message), bin2hex($encrypted_mcrypt));
printf("%s => %s\n", bin2hex($message_padded), bin2hex($encrypted_openssl));

This prints both as equal. 

4c6f72656d20697073756d => c6fed0af15d494e485af3597ad628cec
4c6f72656d20697073756d0000000000 => c6fed0af15d494e485af3597ad628cec

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