Hello, I am currently trying to understand the TripleDES code and found the following line
my @kvs = PPDES::des_set_key( pack( "H*", substr($passphrase, 16*$_, 16 ))); which apparently processes a 16 characters large block with the pack() function. Now I would like to know what it exactly does with this template configuration (H*). My initial assumption that it returns a string containing the hex ascii values of the individual characters (eg: "616263" for "abc") was wrong. Now I think it somehow assumes the passed string to be a hex string and converts its values to an actual string. But what happens if the passed string contains non-hex values like space or even "G"? Thanks, Alexander -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
