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in reply to Simple Crypt::CBC Sample?

I was unable to install Crypt::Random, so I can't even attempt to replicate your error.

However, if I run a modified version of your code with only Crypt::CBC, it runs for me without errors: 

use warnings;
use strict;

use Crypt::CBC;
my $key = 1;
my $cipher = Crypt::CBC->new( -key => $key );
my $ciphertext = $cipher->encrypt_hex('test');
print "$ciphertext \n";

__END__

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Perhaps there is a strange interaction between the 2 modules. Can you use something else to generate the key?

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Re^2: Simple Crypt::CBC Sample?
by boat73 (Scribe) on Feb 14, 2013 at 20:19 UTC
    Interesting, your code generates the error as well. At least I know I am not crazy, just need to figure out where the error is coming from. I am running perl 5.14.2.1402 on Windowz, are you running on Unix? Couldn't load Crypt::1: Can't locate Crypt/1.pm in @INC
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      A look at the source code shows it may be doing a require: 
          unless (ref $cipher) {  # munge the class name if no object passed
      $cipher = $cipher=~/^Crypt::/ ? $cipher : "Crypt::$cipher";
      $cipher->can('encrypt') or eval "require $cipher; 1" or croak "C
+ouldn't load $cipher: $@";
      # some crypt modules use the class Crypt::, and others don't
      $cipher =~ s/^Crypt::// unless $cipher->can('keysize');
    }

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      Yes, I'm on Unix, 2 variants: 
      This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 2 (v5.12.2) built for x86_64-li
+nux

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for x86_64-li
+nux-thread-multi

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