perlmeditation
btrott
I mentioned this module in a [id://100231|posting] a couple of weeks ago, and
several people expressed interest, so I thought I would make a
small announcement. Hope that's not frowned upon. :)<p>
[cpan://Crypt::OpenPGP] is a pure-Perl implementation of the OpenPGP standard. In addition to support for the standard itself, Crypt::OpenPGP claims compatibility with many other PGP implementations, both those that support the standard and those that preceded it.<p>
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Crypt::OpenPGP provides digital signing/verification, encryption/decryption, keyring management, and key-pair generation.<p>
Features:<p>
<ul>
<li> Full compatibility with other PGP implementations: PGP2, PGP5, GnuPG.
Offers a 'Compat' flag when encrypting and signing data that automatically
chooses the correct encryption cipher, digest algorithm etc. for various
other PGP implementations.
<li> Encryption/decryption, signing/verification, key generation.
<li> Symmetric cipher support: IDEA, 3DES, Blowfish, Twofish, Rijndael
(128, 192, and 256 bit keys).
<li> Public key support: RSA and DSA for signing/verification, RSA and
ElGamal for encryption.
<li> Digest algorithms: MD5, SHA-1, RIPE-MD/160.
<li> Supports packet compression (ZIP and Zlib).
</ul>
More information: <a href="http://rhumba.pair.com/ben/perl/openpgp/">http://rhumba.pair.com/ben/perl/openpgp/</a>.<p>