On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, clayton cottingham aka drfrog wrote:
> whats the best encryption module for use with mod perl?
> i want to encrypt passwords store in a db and then be able to check
> what a users inputs against it
Perl has a built-in crypt() function. The actual encryption algorithm used
depends on your system's C library. Older systems still use 56-bit DES.
Newer ones may use something stronger like MD5 or Blowfish. See your crypt(3)
manpage and `perldoc -f crypt` for more information.
- Matt
