in reply to Re^2: My little 123.pl application...
in thread My little 123.pl application...

Something like:
my $buffer_size = 1024; my $on = 0; while ( my $bytes_read = sysread ORGINAL, my $buffer, $buffer_size ) { defined $bytes_read or die "Cannot sysread from $filename: $!"; syswrite ENCRYPTED, $cipher->crypt( $buffer ) or die "Cannot syswr +ite to $filename.3nc: $!"; $on += $bytes_read;