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Re: Crypto for Perl?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Young)
Mon Jan 19 18:22:57 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:41:55 +1000 (EST)
From: Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>
To: Gary Howland <gary@hotlava.com>
cc: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>, "Stephen Cobb, CISSP" <stephen@iu.net>,
cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199801192034.MAA14969@blacklodge.c2.net>
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Gary Howland wrote:
> > >Sorry to pester people in the holiday season, but can anyone point me to
> > >encryption implementations for Perl, for example, DES or Blowfish? I don't
> > >need public key, just a decent symmetric algorithm (i.e. something better
> > >than XOR :-)
> >
> > There are a few modules on CPAN.
> > ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-category/14_Authentica
> > tion_Security_Encryption/ has DES, MD5, SHA and a couple of other things.
> > I am sure there is more out there.
>
> Check out http://www.hotlava.com/software/
I'm also doing a perl5 wrapper for SSLeay.
I've done all the ciphers (rc4, rc2, des, 3des, idea, blowfish, cast),
all block ciphers in ecb, cfb, ofb or cbc mode.
The Digests, md2, md5, sha-0, sha-1, mdc2, ripemd160
The bignum library, with infix operators.
The digests and ciphers are all specified as arguments to the constructor.
I'm currently doing work on the SSL interface, and will be doing x509
stuff as well. One nice thing is that the x86 assember will be used under
the various x86 unixes and win32 :-).
It will be a few weeks until the initial version goes out.
eric
