At 12:24 AM 10/19/00 -0700, Petro wrote:

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I need a perl module or a function that would perform symmetric key encryption/decryption. I need it to encode secret information in URLs. Thanks

I thought you were brighter than that Igor.

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=encrypt

"No modules found matching 'encrypt' "

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=crypt , on the other hand...

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=encrypt got me: 4 modules found in 4 distributions matching 'encrypt' CGI-EncryptForm-1.02 by Peter Marelas Released 24th October 1999 CGI::EncryptForm - Implement trusted stateful CGI Form Data using cryptography. 1.02 GnuPG-0.07 by Francis J. Lacoste Released 15th August 2000 GnuPG::Tie::Encrypt - Tied filehandle interface to encryption with the GNU Privacy Guard. HTML-EP-0.2010 by Jochen Wiedmann Released 15th December 1999 HTML::EP::CGIEncryptForm - An EP interface to the CGI::EncryptForm module Tie-EncryptedHash-1.0 by Vipul Ved Prakash Released 2nd September 2000 Tie::EncryptedHash - Hashes (and objects based on hashes) with encrypting fields. -- A quote from Petro's Archives: ********************************************** Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural