Decrypt function called with illegal string

This appears to be an old problem. The text of a message i found about it
through Google apperas below.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 04:45:55 +0100 (CET) Slegge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

S> I've been testing this against a mail server running on my network today, 
S> and from what i've found out so far is that a pure numeric password can be 
S> atleast 19 char's long. (12345->)  
S> 
S> The password "aas", "uu", "uggabu" didn't work, while "uggab", "a", "aa" 
S> and "aaa" worked fine. I haven't had the time to test this closer, but this 
S> is starting to look rather wierd to me, although i'm getting the feeling of 
S> some sort of cryptic patern. Could u test these on ur box to see if these
S> password works\dont work on ur box? 

 I've just fixed this bug. It was really shameful and the worst is that I
only did it after releasing 0.66 so I guess 0.67 should follow soon...

 For now, just know that a workaround for it is to go to the
registry/config file and remove any "ff" from the password strings there.

 Sorry, VZ

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When I hit the error I went through and searched my config file and
searched for "ff" -- NOTHING in there has an "ff" in the password string.
The only "ff" in my entire config file is a folder named "mail-stuff".
(THANK YOU to whoever got text-config going in the Win32 port -- registry
config sucks!)

But, I realized that I seem to have a habit of using passwords that are an
even number of characters with a minimum of 8 (ie. 8, 10, 12, 16, etc.
characters long).

I went through and changed all my passwords to odd numbers of characters
and now it works fine.

This is on a fresh install of the win32 port followed by moving .exe from
M-Latest.ZIP into the system. 

That works for me but I figured I'd put the info out there for others and
let you know the bug seems to still be in the last builds (M-latest is
dated 9/22/2004). Since the email above is from 12/2004 I was wondering if
there's a newer build out there?

Gerald


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