Sorry for what may be a very simple question - encryption is not my forté:

I have an old script that currently uses chromatic's Crypt::CipherSaber v0.61. For some semblance of security, when saving pass phrases in a database (this could be a Dir-based or SQL database), for later re-fetching, pass phrases are encrypted and the key saved elsewhere.

I recently made this App very UTF-8 aware and I'm seeing problems with the encrypted passwords being created by this module - it seems that some of the characters are high-bit and sometimes do not get encoded/decoded correctly - the information basically gets corrupted.

This may be because the information should be handled in *binary*, instead of text form - which means its my program doing the corruption - the backend may not have the flexibility to handle some fields (like, the encrypted password) as binary - and the rest as text.

Is there a similar module I can use as a replacement for this aging module? Is looking at Crypt::CBC looking in the right direction?

I think what I'm most interested is that the encrypted password is comprised of a string of text, rather than a binary glob.

The other parameter is Pure-Perl implementation of whatever solution seems to be the most plausible.

Help a monk out?

-skazat

In reply to Crypt::CipherSaber replacement... Crypt::CBC? by skazat

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