in reply to Re: Passing data from one script to another
in thread Passing data from one script to another
For the MD5 part, I did a google search for 'perl encrypt md5' and found this link:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Digest/Digest-Perl-MD5-1.5.readme
I haven't used it, but looks like perl module Digest::MD5::Perl does what you want.
HTH.