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my %hash = map { chomp; split /;/, $_, 2 } <OUTFILE>;

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I leave decoding of the above as an exercise. 

44696420796F7520732F2F2F65206F
7220756E7061636B3F202F6D736720
6D6521203A29202D2D204A75657264

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