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Revision history for Perl extension Crypt::xDBM_File.

0.01  Mon Jul 31 12:33:46 2000
	- original version; created by h2xs 1.19

0.80  Tue Aug 01 01:28:14 2000
	- works very well, test.pl requires a few packages :)
	- tested with Crypt::DES
	- tested with Crypt::IDEA
	- tested with Crypt::Blowfish
	- tested with GDBM_File
	- tested with NDBM_File
	- tested with SDBM_File

- some history missing

1.02  Thu Jan 03 08:42:20 2008
    - fixed EXISTS bug, thanks to Cristoph Karich

xDBM_File.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

 tie %hash, 'Crypt::xDBM_File', crypt_method, key, 'GDBM_FILE', $filename, &GDBM_WRCREAT, 0640;

 tie %hash, 'Crypt::xDBM_File', 'IDEA', "my_key", 'NDBM_FILE', $filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0640;

 tie %hash, 'Crypt::xDBM_File', 'DES', "my_key", 'SDBM_FILE', $filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0640;

 tie %hash, 'Crypt::xDBM_File', 'Crypt::Blowfish', "my key", 'GDBM_FILE', $filename, &GDBM_WRCREAT, 0640;

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Crypt::xDBM_File encrypts/decrypts the data in a gdbm,ndbm,sdbm (and maybe even berkeleyDB, but I didn't test that) file.  It gets tied to a hash and you just access the hash like normal.  The crypt function can be any of the CPAN modules that use en...

You can in a single dbm file mix encryption methods, just be prepared to handle the binary muck that you get from trying to decrypt with an algorithm different from the one a key was originally encrypted in (for example if you do a keys or values, yo...

***IMPORTANT***
Encryption keys (the key you pass in on the tie line) will be padded or truncated to fit the keysize().  Data (the key/values of the hash) is padded to fill complete blocks of blocksize().  The padding is stripped before being returned to the user so...

=head1 AUTHOR

Eric Estabrooks, eric@urbanrage.com