Difference in PHP encryption from iOS and .NET

Question

I have an issue when communicating encrypted between iOS and PHP. I have an app that encrypts a string and sends it to a PHP server that decrypts it. That part works just fi

Answer 1

Most likely it's a padding issue... Please see here or here for more information.

EDIT after OP comment:

PHP has no built-in support for other padding modes than the NULL-padding. At least .Net allows you to specify NULL-padding (I think), the other option would be to implement PKCS#7-padding in PHP which is not that difficult to do.

Pad the input with a padding string of between 1 and 8 bytes to make the total length an exact multiple of 8 bytes. The value of each byte of the padding string is set to the number of bytes added - i.e. 8 bytes of value 0x08, 7 bytes of value 0x07, ..., 2 bytes of 0x02, or one byte of value 0x01.

$blockSize = mcrypt_get_block_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC);
$padding   = $blockSize - (strlen($data) % $blockSize);
$data      .= str_repeat(chr($padding), $padding);

Answer 2

After long test's I think this encrypt method will be right for tests:

function mc_encrypt($str = "Affe", $key = "12345678901234567890123456789012")
{
    $str = "Affe";
  $block = mcrypt_get_block_size('rijndael-256', 'cbc');
    $pad = $block - (strlen($str) % $block);
    $str .= str_repeat(chr($pad), $pad);

    $encoded =  base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt('rijndael-256', $key, $str, 'cbc',$key));
    file_put_contents("test.txt",$encoded);
    return $encoded;
}

I got this on iOS: v+cB4woDYANTozUbOgxJ4rWKb59EfLf6NkRE/Ee0kYY= But if I try to decrypt (see above), I got (null)

On the Other if I encrypt on iOS, I got this one: UUfn34iyNlSK40VaehloaQ==

definitely to short (or the other is to long)...searching again for errors.