diff --git a/includes/decrypt.hpp b/includes/decrypt.hpp
index c47f9dd..80dcc1b 100644
--- a/includes/decrypt.hpp
+++ b/includes/decrypt.hpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef DECRYPT_HPP  
 #define DECRYPT_HPP
 
-unsigned char *decrypt(char* encyrpted_text, char *passphrase);
+unsigned char *decrypt(char* encrypted_text, char *passphrase);
 
 #endif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/decrypt.cpp b/src/decrypt.cpp
index ee58800..39400df 100644
--- a/src/decrypt.cpp
+++ b/src/decrypt.cpp
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #include "../lib/Blowfish/blowfish.h"
 #include <string.h>
 
-unsigned char *decrypt(char* encyrpted_text, char *passphrase){ 
+unsigned char *decrypt(char* encrypted_text, char *passphrase){ 
     if(passphrase == NULL){
         passphrase = "mypassphrase";
     }else{  
@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@ unsigned char *decrypt(char* encyrpted_text, char *passphrase){
             exit(0);
         }
     }
-    unsigned char unsigned_content[strlen(encyrpted_text) + 5] = {0} ; 
+
+    unsigned char unsigned_content[strlen(encrypted_text) + 5] = {0} ; 
     int i = 0 ;
-    while(i < strlen(encyrpted_text)){
-        unsigned_content[i] = encyrpted_text[i];
-        i++;
-    }
+    strncpy((char *)unsigned_content, encrypted_text, strlen(encrypted_text));
+// converting to unsigned keys
     i = 0;
     unsigned char unsigned_key[strlen(passphrase) + 5] = {0} ; 
     while(i < strlen(passphrase)){
diff --git a/src/embed.cpp b/src/embed.cpp
index 089fe29..0a6d273 100644
--- a/src/embed.cpp
+++ b/src/embed.cpp
@@ -78,13 +78,13 @@ void embed(char* coverfile, char* embedingfile, char* passphrase, char* outputfi
     // when reading the header using extract.cpp the x added here will be removed and the strings will be converted to ints to get the right values
     // reading these header maybe will crash when using bigest files "more than 9999" so this is temporarely until i change it
     while(i < 7){
-        if(s_array[i] < 9){
+        if(s_array[i] <= 9){
             string_cover_content.insert(f , std::to_string(s_array[i]) + "xxx");
-        }else if(s_array[i] < 99){
+        }else if(s_array[i] <= 99){
             string_cover_content.insert(f , std::to_string(s_array[i]) + "xx");     // the x appended to the file are used to make every int take 4 bytes, i thought adding null bytes would be better but null bytes are used as string terminators, x's are used temporarily until i find a better solution 
-        }else if(s_array[i] < 999){
+        }else if(s_array[i] <= 999){
             string_cover_content.insert(f , std::to_string(s_array[i]) + "x");
-        }else if(s_array[i] < 9999){
+        }else if(s_array[i] <= 9999){
             string_cover_content.insert(f , std::to_string(s_array[i]));
         }
         i++;
diff --git a/src/extract.cpp b/src/extract.cpp
index 53d918d..27f398b 100644
--- a/src/extract.cpp
+++ b/src/extract.cpp
@@ -102,11 +102,11 @@ void extract(char* stegfile, char* passphrase, char* outputfile, bool encryption
     container += d ; 
     char encrypted_text[container.length() + 10];
     strcpy(encrypted_text, container.c_str());
-    encrypted_text[header.s_sizef] = '\0';
-    std::cout << encrypted_text;
+    encrypted_text[header.s_sizef +1] = '\0';
     // decrypting the data extracted
     char *con = encrypted_text ;
     unsigned char* unsig_container = decrypt(con, passphrase);
+    std::cout << unsig_container;
     // storing it into a file 
     FILE *output;
     output = fopen(outputfile, "w");