Monks,

I've been working with digests (thanks to DigitalKitty) and a few other encryption algorithms. One that I stumbled over is Crypt::CBC. I want a readable "encypted" value so that I can decrypt it at a later point of time.
The (very simple) code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Crypt::CBC;
my $cipher = Crypt::CBC->new( -key    => 'test',
                             -salt   => 1,
                            );
my $ciphertext = $cipher->encrypt("encrypt_me");
#  my $plaintext = $cipher->decrypt($ciphertext);
        $print_this=unpack("H16", $ciphertext);
#so far, so good
        $packed_stuff=pack("H16", $print_this);
print $packed_stuff."\n";

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Isn't $packed_stuff be equal to $ciphertext?
If not, having $print_this, how do I get $ciphertext?

Any help would do...

Thanks,
Rupesh.

In reply to Can't pack "unpacked" stuff... by rupesh

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