From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:12:52 +0800
To: "Richard D. Sheffar" <rick@muskoka.net>
Subject: Re: [NOISE] BIO-MUNITION: gifs of perl-RSA tattoo
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On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Richard D. Sheffar wrote:
 
[Perl RSA sig deleted]
> Okay, I admit it I don't know everything.
> What does the perl script actually do.
> I saved to file, chmod 777 perly
> tried running the script and kept getting error line 3.
> What does it do, does it encrypt a file or what. What Have i done wrong?
> 

The script, when supplied with a exponent (public or secret) and a modulus,
encrypts standard input with the RSA algorithm and sends the result to
standard output.  You can get all the info on this from http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/
~aba/rsa/.  In response to why it doesn't work, did you check to see if you
have a working copy of the UNIX program "dc"?


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finger markm@voicenet.com for Public Key http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/
Key-ID: 0xF9B22BA5 Fingerprint: bd24d08e3cbb53472054fa56002258d5
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