You need to read up on pack and unpack The * is a useful widget and using it fixes your problem. 

use Crypt::CBC;
my $What = "Some text to be encrypted.";
# my $Length = length ( $What ) * 2;

my $Cipher = Crypt::CBC->new ( [ key => $DBITT::CryptString ] );
my $CipherText = $Cipher->encrypt ( $What );
my $ASCII = unpack ( "H*", $CipherText );

print "Encrypted result of $What is $ASCII.\n";
print " That was " . length ( $ASCII ) . " bytes long.\n";

my $PlainText = $Cipher->decrypt ( $CipherText );
print "And back into the real world we have '$PlainText'.\n";

$PlainText = $Cipher->decrypt ( pack ( "H*", $ASCII ) );
print "Try via ASCII string it's '$PlainText'.\n";

__DATA__
Encrypted result of Some text to be encrypted. is 52616e646f6d49569aee
+93f3d204172c101f93dcae2a2a94dd1142acf98a0067bdf2f0edfcb06b3543f3cf8d0
+5decc33. 
That was 96 bytes long.
And back into the real world we have 'Some text to be encrypted.'.
Try via ASCII string it's 'Some text to be encrypted.'.

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tachyon

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In reply to Re: Length of Crypt::CBC result by tachyon
in thread Length of Crypt::CBC result by talexb

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