Okay, I need some encryption on a program. I'm using Crypt::CBC with the Blowfish algorithm, but no matter what I do, it says that the data must be eight bytes long. I thought CBC handled that for you... This JUST is the important part of my code 
   my $Cipher = Crypt::CBC->new( {'key'             => "My secret key.
+ Shush.",
                                  'cipher'          => 'Blowfish',
                                  'padding'         => 'null', 
                                  'iv'              => '{3fd#t4^$#',
                                  'regenerate_key'  => 0,
                                  'prepend_iv'      => 0
   });
   $Cipher->start('e');
   my $Shout = $dbh->quote($Cipher->crypt($q->param('Message')));
   $cipher->finish();

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Do I have to manually pad everything and chop it up into pieces of eight?

In reply to CBC being a pain by Pumeleon

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