Well if you want the crypted string to be the same length as the input string then I'd recommend Crypt::RC4. It encrypts and decrypts with the same function (I forget the technical term for it ...) so is nice and easy to use. However you'll probably want to make the encrypted string web friendly e.g 
use Crypt::RC4;

sub nice_encrypt {
    my($val, $key) = @_;
    return join '',
           map { sprintf('%02x', ord()) }
           split //, RC4($key, $val);
}
sub nice_decrypt {
    my($val, $key) = @_;
    return RC4($key, join '',
                     map { chr(hex($_)) }
                     $val =~ /../g);
}

my $encstr = nice_encrypt("foobar", 123);
my $decstr = nice_decrypt($encstr,  123);

print "$encstr\n$decstr\n";

__END__

output - 359fd0e08406
         foobar

[download]
The above code doubles the size of the crypted string, but I'm sure you get the gist of it.
HTH

broquaint

In reply to Re: Encryption Question by broquaint
in thread Encryption Question by Purdy

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