Hi All, Thanks a lot for the responses. I used Crypt::CBC using Blowfish. It works as expected.
I have one more query. Is there any way to store the key that we use to encrypt so that only the program that will decrypt it will get access to it? I can not store it in any database as I want to encrypt the database user name and password. Thanks, Nilanjan ----- Original Message ----- From: "William R. Mussatto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:21 AM Subject: Re: Encryption module > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone tell me some of the Perl packages used for Encrypting or > > Decrypting some data mostly strings using some Public and Private key > > like RSA. Please suggest some.I want to encrypt/decrypt the database > > user and password. > > > > Thanks, > > Nilanjan > Look under Crypt::Blowfish for symmetric key (single key systems). You > use the public private key systems if different parties will be encoding > and decoding. That said for Passwords you can use a one way key which MD5 > provides. You just encode the test password and then compare it with the > encrypted password which is stored in the database. I guess you could use > one half of a public private key system to do this. > > William R. Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer > Ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 > FAX. 909-608-7061 > > >
