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I was wondering how openssl handles a message that is dividable by 8 bytes when using AES-128-CBC. How can openssl detect that there is no padding (PKCS#5/PKCS#7) to be removed? Especially when the message ends in a character with an ASCII code less than or equal to 8.
I hope my question is clear.
Thanks
Well the answer is that padding is always added, even if the data can be divided by the block size. Thus a 8 byte string will be padded with 8 bytes (with ASCII code 8).