python - Different Results in Go and Pycrypto when using AES-CFB

Question

I am adding a go application to an already existing python codebase. I've been having trouble dealing with encryption between the languages. This is using go 1.2.1 and Python 2.7.x / PyCrypto 2.7a1.

Here is the Python sample:

import Crypto.Cipher
import Crypto.Hash.HMAC
import Crypto.Hash.SHA256
import Crypto.PublicKey.RSA
from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify

#encrypt
payload =  unhexlify("abababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab")
password = unhexlify("0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF")
iv = unhexlify("00000000000000000000000000000000")

print "IV: ", hexlify(iv), "len: ", len(iv)
print "Password length: ", len(password)


cipher = Crypto.Cipher.AES.new(
            key=password, 
            mode=Crypto.Cipher.AES.MODE_CFB, 
            IV=iv)

payload = cipher.encrypt(payload)

print hexlify(payload) #dbf6b1877ba903330cb9cf0c4f530d40bf77fe2bf505820e993741c7f698ad6b

And this is the Go sample:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "crypto/cipher"
    "crypto/aes"
    "encoding/hex"
)

// encrypt
func main() {
    payload, err1 := hex.DecodeString("abababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab")
    password, err2 := hex.DecodeString("0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF")
    iv, err3 := hex.DecodeString("00000000000000000000000000000000")

    if err1 != nil {
        fmt.Printf("error 1: %v", err1)
        return
    }

    if err2 != nil {
        fmt.Printf("error 2: %v", err2)
        return
    }

    if err3 != nil {
        fmt.Printf("error 3: %v", err3)
        return
    }

    aesBlock, err4 := aes.NewCipher(password)

    fmt.Printf("IV length:%v
", len(iv))
    fmt.Printf("password length:%v
", len(password))

    if err4 != nil {
        fmt.Printf("error 4: %v", err4)
        return
    }

    cfbDecrypter := cipher.NewCFBEncrypter(aesBlock, iv)
    cfbDecrypter.XORKeyStream(payload, payload) 

    fmt.Printf("%v
", hex.EncodeToString(payload)) // db70cd9e6904359cb848410bfa38d7d0a47b594f7eff72d547d3772c9d4f5dbe
}

Here is the golang link, I could not find a Python pastebin that had PyCrypto installed.

As suggested by the title & source, the two snippets produce different cyphertext:
Python: dbf6b1877ba903330cb9cf0c4f530d40bf77fe2bf505820e993741c7f698ad6b
Golang: db70cd9e6904359cb848410bfa38d7d0a47b594f7eff72d547d3772c9d4f5dbe

Both languages can decrypt their 'native' cypthertext, but neither can decrypt the others'. Because the python implementation already exists, I'm looking for a solution that will allow Go to decrypt cyphertext encrypted with the example PyCrypto AES settings & key size.

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