I need to encrypt three strings, each stored as MySql varchar's, email_address, first_name, last_name.

So I need to convert "larry@perl.com" , "Larry" and "Monk" into encrypted strings.

I thought I'd use crypt::cbc to encrypt "larry@perl.com" but that gives me a string with some characters that I figure could cause me problems, so I then converted the result into a hex string with the following:
(my $str = shift) =~ s/(.|\n)/sprintf("%02lx", ord $1)/eg;

Problem is that's not very efficient, my output is twice as long as my input.

What's a good way to convert "larry@perl.com" into "aBcDeFgH123456" for example, so both strings are the same or similar length, if indeed that's possible.

HeebyGeeby

In reply to Encrypting Strings by Anonymous Monk

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