Yeah, I just got all the pre-requisites installed, and see the problem in my testing....sorry if I led you off track. After a groups.google.search for the problem, it has been asked before on the newsgroups. What it seems to come down to, is that you cannot just take the Dump 
$key{"priv_key"} = "864936564936746739711078786791024560681741810216";

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and use that as a private key. The "key" must be a Crypt::DSA::Key object. From the looks of things, you need to save your key to a file, like 
     
  $key->write( Type => 'PEM', Filename => $keyfile);

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then when you want to import that file 
$key = Crypt::DSA::Key->new(Type => 'PEM', Filename => $keyfile);

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Now whether you can read that into a scalar value, I don't know. But the PEM key should look like 
-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIH3AgEAAkEAuu/8bF0QtFaU8Eo3XzJzyuwyfIEoCvYxzcx5dGkTa7przkVGPaJp
n6uEPIueBQEP21+SmfebPpkbKF98gw+MSwIVAMGFQpGtsAWNedBzQ85p0CkTuKYZ
AkBLciRf48J8u/LYz2FejmaPs88sKPt/mNLLfzOUz6LO0HqjXOq6vD0WzGcek0Z6
VK9JD3r9eyclPNvsArZ7v/LaAkBxM58UjEqschS9r7Je28kCQ4eYC4lhkRq+pAot
/kh86LBlohQZ6A6zgCyPiKNLT5VQ29vKW49f36XjYrIDUk21AhQdRFsMvKVp+W5C
7L7i0FLp3tYb6w==
-----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----

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and NOT the number string you originaly had. I will post an example if I can get it to work. :-)
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In reply to Re^3: How to Make Crypt::DSA use a your key to sign something by zentara
in thread How to Make Crypt::DSA use a your key to sign something by xorl

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