Could anyone help me figure out how to use this module? I don't have a good understanding of OO, FYI...(Yes, I have read the tutorial on it here, no I still don't get it.)

I put together this sample script to try and simply decrypt an encrypted file that I have already created:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# A simple example
use IO::Handle;
use GnuPG::Interface;
use IO::File;

# settting up the situation
my $gnupg = GnuPG::Interface->new();
$gnupg->options->hash_init( armor   => 1,
                            homedir => '/root' );

# Note you can set the recipients even if you aren't encrypting!
$gnupg->options->push_recipients( 'ftobin@uiuc.edu' );
$gnupg->options->meta_interactive( 0 );


# This time we'll catch the standard error for our perusing
# as well as passing in the passphrase manually
# as well as the status information given by GnuPG
my ( $input, $output, $error, $passphrase_fh, $status_fh )
  = ( IO::Handle->new(),
      IO::Handle->new(),
      IO::Handle->new(),
      IO::Handle->new(),
      IO::Handle->new(),
    );

my $handles = GnuPG::Handles->new( stdin      => $input,
                                   stdout     => $output,
                                   stderr     => $error,
                                   passphrase => $passphrase_fh,
                                   status     => $status_fh,
                                 );

# this time we'll also demonstrate decrypting
# a file written to disk
# Make sure you "use IO::File" if you use this module!
my $cipher_file = IO::File->new( 'encrypted.gpg' );

# this sets up the communication
my $pid = $gnupg->decrypt( handles => $handles );

# This passes in the passphrase
#print $passphrase_fh $passphrase;
print $passphrase_fh "";
close $passphrase_fh;

# this passes in the plaintext
#print $input $_ while <$cipher_file>;
print $input $_ while <>;

# this closes the communication channel,
# indicating we are done
close $input;
#close $cipher_file;
       
       print "$pid";

my @plaintext    = <$output>;   # reading the output
my @error_output = <$error>;    # reading the error
my @status_info  = <$status_fh>; # read the status info

# clean up...
close $output;
close $error;
close $status_fh;

waitpid $pid, 1;  # clean up the finished GnuPG process
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I was just trying ./test.pl < etest.txt.asc and all it does is print out the pid. How do I get it to decrypt the file? Either to console or an output file would be fine.

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naChoZ

edited: Thu May 29 21:20:36 2003 by jeffa - removed blockquotes, removed leading whitespace in code