1. is pretty easy, 

$key_arr[0] = pack 'h2', unpack 'H2',
     ( $lock_arr[0] ^ $lock_arr[-1]
#       ^ $lock_arr[-2] ^ 5 ); # not quite right
       ^ $lock_arr[-2] ^ chr(5) );

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I simplified the end of array indexing a bit.

You can view the results with 

print unpack 'H*', join '', @lock_arr;
print unpack 'H*', join '', @key_arr;

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You appear to have split the lock phrase into an array for convenience. Another approach would be with substr. I'd combine both operations in a single sub which takes the lock string or array as an argument and returns the key: 

sub keycalc {
    my @key = @_;
    for (0..$#key) {
        $key[$_] = pack 'h2', unpack 'H2',
            ($_ ? $key[$_] ^ $key[$_ - 1]
#                : $key[-1] ^ $key[-2] ^ 5); # same error
                : $key[-1] ^ $key[-2] ^ chr(5));
    }
    @key;
}
print unpack( 'H*', join '', @lock_arr), $/;
print unpack( 'H*', join '', keycalc( @lock_arr)), $/;

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Update: Oops! you need the numeric 5 as a character, Fixed with chr, as indicated.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Low level operations by Zaxo
in thread Low level operations by narse

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