Re: [MacPerl] Safely Storing a Credit Card Number using Perl? -

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 19.05 -0500 1999.02.02, Brian McNett wrote:
>Isn't there a PGP module for Perl?  Has this been ported/does it work
>with MacPerl?  It seems to me that what's needed here is a one-time pad.
>This means that a unique cryptographic key is generated with each
>transaction.  Someone might step in and break one key, but since that key
>is thrown away and never used again, it's worthless.  PGP can do this.

PGP is good, but the only existing scritable PGP method is AppleScript or
my Mac::Apps::MacPGP module (or your own Apple Events) with MacPGP 2.6.3.

It is possible to do a module that calls the PGP 5.x API directly, using
XS.  But you can do it all with Mac::Apps::MacPGP (though that module is
somewhat, er, crufty, being my very first module, and my first foray into
Apple Events :).

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Chris Nandor          mailto:pudge@pobox.com         http://pudge.net/
%PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10  1FF77F13 8180B6B6'])

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