------------------------------------------------ On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:32:26 -0800 (PST), Patricia Hinman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Wiggins d'Anconia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Always group reply so that the rest of the list can > > help and be helped by the discussion. > Sorry if I sent email to your address. It wasn't > intentional. > That's fine, more important that someone else might have a suggestion I wouldn't. > I'm new to encryption. When I think of Crypt I think > graveyard. And so far I've found no info that will > encrypt some passwords that I want to write to an > .htpasswd file. What I have is a program with an > admin panel that needs to be in a protected directory. > I don't want the password to be sent unencrypted. > Do you mean transmitted over the network unencrypted, or stored unencrypted? In the latter case see my other message, in the former case you should look at using "https" instead of normal http, so that your whole transmission is encrypted, and more importantly the gory details are handled for you. This is the preferred method of sending data that is sensitive over the web, as this is best understood by most browsers. > > I used nmake and have perl 8.0, apache server > installed on my home PC with a win98 box. But all of > the programs I write are uploaded to a Unix server. > Even though I've used cpan to download and install > Twofish, Blowfish, CipherSaber, and CryptSerpent the > only one I've successfully installed is CipherSaber. > I would assume this is moot from the rest of the discussion. > I have to make sure the encryption method is platform > independant and preferably 100% perl. > This is best handle outside the scope of Perl by https and apache, and one of the reasons is so that it will be platform independent. > I did stumble across a method call to a cryption() in > a simple script but couldn't see any package that the > method belonged to. > Does the perl core have a cryption method? > crypt() right. See other messsage. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
