Re: Crypt::*

[email protected] (Fabien Tassin) Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:14:47 +0100
Newsgroups perl.sdk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
According to Nathan Torkington:
> 
> We had several Crypt modules on our list: CBC, DES, IDEA, and SSLeay.
> 
> Pick and choose.  My personal preference is for DES and IDEA, because
> I've never heard of an application that uses CBC,

SNMPv3 uses CBC-DES as first privacy protocol (see RFC 2574).
I'm using it in my SNMP modules (not available on CPAN yet).

> and SSLeay requires
> a third-party library that has given me nightmares trying to build it.
> 
> Nat

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