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.IX Title "HCE_SHA 3pm"
.TH HCE_SHA 3pm "2016-07-29" "perl v5.22.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Crypt::HCE_SHA \- Perl extension implementing one way hash chaining encryption using SHA
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\&  use Crypt::HCE_SHA;
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\&  $hce_sha = Crypt::HCE_SHA\->new("SharedSecret", "Random01,39j309ad");
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\&  $crypted = $hce_sha\->hce_block_encrypt("Encrypt this information");
\&  $info = $hce_sha\->hce_block_decrypt($crypted);
\&
\&  $mime_crypted = $hce_sha\->hce_block_encode_mime("Encrypt and Base64 this information");
\&  $info = $hce_sha\->hce_block_decode_mime($mime_crypted);
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\&  $hce_sha = Crypt::HCE_SHA\->new("key", "random", 256);  # use SHA256 instead of SHA1
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This module implements a chaining block cipher using a one way hash.  This method of encryption is the same that is used by radius (\s-1RFC2138\s0) and is also described in Applied Cryptography.
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Two interfaces are provided in the module.  The first is straight block encryption/decryption the second does base64 mime encoding/decoding of the encrypted/decrypted blocks.
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The idea is the the two sides have a shared secret that supplies one of the keys and a randomly generated block of bytes provides the second key.  The random key is passed in cleartext between the two sides.
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An example client and server are packaged as modules with this module.  They are used in the tests. They can be found in the examples directory.
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Thanks to Jake Angerman for the bug report on the bug in key generation for the chaining portion of the algorithm
.SH "AUTHOR"
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Eric Estabrooks, eric@urbanrage.com
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\&\fIperl\fR\|(1).