linux – Bash – OpenSSL decryption returns “bad magic number” error …

June 6, 2025

@lonelonetraveller The problem isn’t cat, it’s hexdump -C vs xxd -r -p.Specifically, xxd -r -p expects a plain hex dump (with no addresses, or anything else — just raw hex), but hexdump -C includes an address at the beginning of each line, and an ASCII-ish representation at the end of each line.

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