How exactly does mcrypt implement rijndael-256 and how to make compatible

[Jens Müller]

Hello,

I try to program a Rijndael encryption in Windows which has to be
compatible with php.

In php I use the code below to encrypt with a 256 Bit Key and a 256 Bit
block cipher.
My windows code has the same specs, but the outcome is different.

So far I use no iv to facilitate.

I want to get more information on mcrypt_generic - how is the data
padded to multiples of 32 - my code adds Ascii 0.
I read somewhere on the internet that mcrypt added not ascii 0 but the
ascii value of the number of the padded bytes - still with this
modification of my code the result is different.

Where is the information about the length of the encoded string stored?
My code uses the first 4 bytes (but even if I do not store the length,
the outcome is different).

If no detailed information about mcrypt is available, I would be helped
if I could find a pute php Rijndael implementation so that I can adjust
it to work with my windows code. Is such an implementation available?

Thanks a lot,
Jens


$key = 'Key';
$string = 'Plain text';
$td = mcrypt_module_o pen('rijndael-256', '', 'cbc', '');
$iv_size = mcrypt_enc_get_ iv_size($td);
$iv = str_repeat(chr( 0), $iv_size);
if (mcrypt_generic _init($td, $key, $iv) != -1) {
$c_t = mcrypt_generic( $td, $string);
mcrypt_generic_ deinit($td);
mcrypt_module_c lose($td);
}