Re: Best Crypt:: for Certain Situations

You didn't really give a lot of detail on your needs. Here's my take:

Since you are working with a client, and not a company-internal data exchange, this sounds like a job for public key encryption.

The de-facto standard for this (AFAIK) is GnuPG.

There are two modules on CPAN for GnuPG, GnuPG and GnuPG::Interface. Personally, I've used the former, and had good luck with it.

Update:Looks like there is another option: Crypt::GPG.

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Re: Re: Best Crypt:: for Certain Situations by r.joseph (Hermit) on Feb 04, 2001 at 03:33 UTC
Sorry about that, I guess I didn't provide enough detail. Here is what I am doing: The encrypted data file will be read by this program only, so I don't think I have a need for public key encryption. It is actually going to end up being a CGI program that allows the client to log in, enter some data, and retrieve this data later, all of which will be stored in this encypted data file. Hope that helps a little more - thanks! R.Joseph Update: I have found that using Crypt::Blowfish for the encryption along with Crypt::CBC to allow me to encrypt large files without having to manually break them into 8-byte chunks work wonderfully. And it is fast, too!	[reply]

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