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Essentially, an 8 byte array can be manipulated in Perl as a string with 8 characters, though there might but some unicode related concerns.

You're going to have to be a little clearer about what you are having problems with?

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Re^2: convert dotnet to perl
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2005 at 18:54 UTC
    Well, the class they are using seems to be based on DES. I was planning on using Crypt::DES but I don't see any methods that allow passing in an IV. So, the next thing I did was take a look at Crypt::CBC which allows you to specify a cipher (DES, in this case) as well as a key and iv. My next problem was trying to figure out what to do with a dotnet byte array for the iv and key (pack?) in order to stringify since that is what the perl modules use.
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      Where are you getting these fields from in your Perl code? And what form are they in?

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        I'm not sure I understand your question. The initialization vector and key are from the dotnet code and looks like this:

        private static byte InitVect = { 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88}; private static byte CryptKey = { 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 };

        (numbers changed for security)

        I tried doing a pack("b*",(11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88)) but I'm not sure if that is what I need to do.

        Anybody know what I need to do with these?

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