Luigi Auriemma

I've been in the process of converting STEAMPWD to VB.NET for use in my own application. Using the app as reference, and the details in the Delphi topic I've gotten it to output the password, but there's a problem.
Essentially, as an example, if the password is badpassword11, then the padding length byte, the padding bytes, and the password get printed, however only the character portions of it print correctly(ie badpassword) the remainder prints out as garbage characters.

My only thought is that my character encoding is wrong, but I've tried all the available ones I know of in VB, any ideas?

if you have used the AES solution this is probably caused by the problem I explained in that topic.
In short the AES CFB applied by crypto++ uses the XORing method normally used in the decryption for the encryption... so you must modify the source code of your AES function inverting that part as I did for steampwd in aes_inverted.c, from:

if( mode == AES_ENCRYPT )
to:
if( mode != AES_ENCRYPT ) // inverted!!!