perlquestion Beechbone We're using Net::SSH::Perl here and some time the last weeks something changed and we always get an error in one of our modules: <code> input must be 8 bytes long at /usr/local/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux/Crypt/DES.pm line 57. </code> Same happens when forcing Blowfish. I tracked the program execution down to this (DES code is identical): <code> Crypt/Blowfish.pm: Crypt::Blowfish::crypt($data, $data, $self->{'ks'}, 0); Crypt/Blowfish.xs: void blowfish_crypt(input, output, ks, dir) char * input = NO_INIT SV * output char * ks = NO_INIT STRLEN input_len = NO_INIT STRLEN output_len = NO_INIT STRLEN ks_len = NO_INIT int dir CODE: { input = (char *) SvPV(ST(0), input_len); if (input_len != 8) croak("input must be 8 bytes long"); </code> We added debug code around the Perl code and it clearly states that $data is exactly 8 bytes long when given to the C function. It is a real string as as sure as <code>$data = "$data";</code> can make. The data is just normal 8 bytes, I see no pattern in it, and it is not always the same data. One example would be (in hex): "0a ac 30 c6 f8 b1 e7 b9".<p> I'm clueless, any ideas? <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-85294"> <hr><small>_Search, Ask, ^Know</small> </div></div>