To clarify a bit more of the situation

The encryption cipher from JAVA is out of my hands and generated by an API
I somehow need to match the same cipher in perl

JAVA CODE to generate the Cipher 
String key = "just a bunch of text";
byte[] bytes = new byte[256];
byte[] kbytes = key.getBytes();
for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
   if (i < kbytes.length) {
     bytes[i] = kbytes[i];
   } else {
     bytes[i] = (byte) i;
   }
}
byte[] md5digest = md5DigestAsBytes(bytes);
try {
   theGeneratedKey = Twofish_Algorithm.makeKey(md5digest);
   blockSize = Twofish_Algorithm.blockSize();
   catch (java.security.InvalidKeyException ike) {
     throw new Exception(Exception.E_SECURITY, "Invalid security key '
+" + new String(md5digest) + "'", ike);
   }

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the part that i need a bit help with:
String key = "just a bunch of text";
byte[] bytes = new byte[256];
byte[] kbytes = key.getBytes();
for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
   if (i < kbytes.length) {
     bytes[i] = kbytes[i];
   } else {
     bytes[i] = (byte) i;
   }
}
byte[] md5digest = md5DigestAsBytes(bytes);

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The rest is quite obvious
I am lacking the experience with java to replicate the code and test it against a perl version
Question should read:
I need to match the exact same cipher in Perl
to be able to utilize Crypt::Twofish and decrypt the data. How can I do this in Perl

This is my first post here.

In reply to Re: Java to perl conversion by MaGiCaLB
in thread Java to perl conversion by MaGiCaLB

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