[PYTHON-CRYPTO] [newbie] encyption/decryption and padding

[Morten Bagai]

Hi,

I'm new to pycrypto. I'm trying to do something really basic, which  
is to decrypt an ASCII-HEX block of ciphertext with Blowfish using a  
simple key. Here's how i do it:

from Crypto.Cipher import Blowfish
from binascii import hexlify,unhexlify

# some ascii-hex cipher text
ciphertext =  
'AE930CE7794D7EFE80D30D0EC79243F99DB7C3FC5D19048D86724EA945FD8E47'
# not a real key
key = 'blah'

mycipher = Blowfish.new(pwd,Blowfish.MODE_ECB)
cleartext =  mycipher.decrypt(unhexlify(ciphertext))

This works fine, except in addition to the original cleartext, i also  
get the padding as a result of the "decrypt" method call. Is this  
normal? If so, what's the standard way to get rid of the padding?  
Also, when encrypting with a symmetric algorithm like Blowfish, are  
there any convenience functions in the toolkit for applying padding,  
say PKCS#5, automatically?

Thanks,

Morten
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