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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All,
I am looking for a simple way to encrypt/decrypt passwords which are stored in a properties file.

For example, root passwords to unix machines.

I have tried looking at the Crypt packages, but the ciphertext contains unicode characters which
give problems when reading back from a file.

Heavyweight encryption is not really needed.
Thanks.