I had a Web portal for various applications set up on an OpenSUSE Linux 11.2 server so that jobs could be submitted by non Linux users. I upgraded recently to OpenSUSE 11.3 then 11.4, and when I attempt to browse to the portal from any computer in our network, I get the following server error:

Ciphertext does not begin with a valid header for 'salt' header mode at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3/Tie/EncryptedHash.pm line 132. INIT failed--call queue aborted.

Here is the section of EncryptedHash.pm that is referenced; line 132 is the one with Crypt::CBC in it.

sub decrypt { # ($cipher $md5sum $ciphertext, $password)
    return undef unless $_[1];
    my ($m, $d, $c) = split /\s/,$_[0]; 
    my $ptext = Crypt::CBC->new($_[1],$m)->decrypt_hex($c);
    my $check = md5_base64($ptext);
    if ( $d eq $check ) {
      if ($ptext =~ /^REF (.*)/is) { 
        my ($VAR1,$VAR2,$VAR3,$VAR4,$VAR5,$VAR6,$VAR7,$VAR8);
        return eval qq{$1}; 
      }
      return $ptext;  
    }

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I am at a loss on how to correct this - I am, at best, a Perl novice. Any suggestions? Thank you for whatever aid you can provide.

In reply to Salt issue by Anonymous Monk

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