jack ander writes:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone instruct me on how to make this script run using ActivePerl on
> WinXP?
>
> Thanks!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> "To use the perl implementation of RC4 you just give a key in hex on the
> command line and the rc4 perl program will encrypt standard input to
> standard output. In this example we encrypt the message "test message" with
> the 32 bit hex key "12abcdef". The message is encrypted from stdin to stdout
> which is redirected to the file "test.rc4":"
>
> % echo test message | rc4 12abcdef > test.rc4
>
> To decrypt the message you just reverse the process giving the same key and
> using the encrypted file:
>
> % rc4 12abcdef < test.rc4
If rc4 is a Perl script to invoke the interpreter somehow, try:
echo test message | perl rc4 12abcdef > test.rc4
There are probably other ways as well.
HTH
--
Brian Raven
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for
something, after all... :-)
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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