Actually, IMHO, it's easier to get the Perl client running on Windows than it is on *nix -- because precompiled libraries are readily avaiable, and PPM will install them for you from the net (thanks to Eric Longman)).
The document that has been discussed lately names one Windows library that allegedly works. The closedsrs ActiveX component on SourceForge says that OpenSSL works too. -- Lynn On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:23:59 +0100, Chris Andrews wrote: >On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:43AM -0700, Lynn W. Taylor wrote: > >>�So the documentation on CBC and Blowfish and etc. belongs in the >>�hands of those who wrote those modules. �Tucows should point to that >>�documentation. > >The documentation for Crypt::Blowfish and Crypt::CBC is all on CPAN, >as is the source. Try http://search.cpan.org, and search for >'blowfish'. There's also Crypt::Blowfish_PP, which interoperates with >Crypt::Blowfish, is pure Perl, and so will definitely run on Windows. > >I've been pointed to http://www.counterpane.com/vectors.txt. Hopefully >this will prove useful. > >What I don't understand, though, is why anyone working on an OpenSRS- >related project wants to implement Blowfish for themselves. I've now >worked on three separate systems interfacing to OpenSRS (PHP/Web, >Perl/Web and Perl/email), and at no point did I even consider writing >my own Blowfish routine -- I just used a library. > >All my systems have been on Unix, though. Are there *no* encryption >libraries available on Windows? > > >Chris.
