[JaxPM] FW: Perl.com Newsletter: Symmetric Cryptography in Perl

Wed Jul 11 18:59:51 CDT 2001

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er "JONES, WILLIAM C" <wcjones at exchange.fccj.org> wrote -

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Hello, world!

This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to 
bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl 
world and on our own site.

* Perl at large.

Happy news this week from the Perl Journal - it'll now be published 
by CMP Media, the owner of Dr. Dobb's, Sys Admin and many other fine
publications. Jon Orwant will still be working for TPJ, as Senior
Contributing Editor, and subscribers will be getting new issues of 
TPJ - and there are rumours that we'll be getting free monthly 
copies of Sys Admin magazine - from this fall. Read the whole story:

    http://www.samag.com/tpj/

Ask Bjorn Hansen, perl.org's tireless administrator, has come up 
with another useful tool: you can now read all the perl.org mailing 
lists via NNTP by connecting with your newsread to nntp.perl.org. 
(That's for those of you who don't do it yourself using Mail::Audit 
and News::Gateway, of course. :)

ActiveState has released another issue of the ActiveCD, which 
contains all of their software - including trial editions of 
Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual XSLT, the Microsoft Visual 
Studio plug-ins, as well as the complete Perl and Python package 
repositories.

    http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveCD/

I also hear on the grapevine that ActiveState will be releasing 1.1 
of their Komodo IDE for Linux in the near future. We're hoping to 
give you a review of Komodo when it comes out.

Chris Nandor, the MacPerl porter, has been a very busy man 
recently; he's released the third alpha version of MacPerl 5.6.1. 
This actually contains many of the modules integrated into the 
5.7.x series of Perl, so you're actually getting a sneak preview 
of 5.8.0. Get it, compile it, test it, and tell Chris about any
bugs:

    http://macperl.sourceforge.net/

With only two weeks to go for the Perl Conference, presenters are
putting the finishing touches on their talks and tutorials; (and 
I get ready to fly out...) the guys over at YAPC::Europe, on the 
other hand, have released the schedule for their August conference 
in Amsterdam. The theme is security, but there's a lot of other 
interesting things going on there:

    http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl/
    http://www.yapc.org/Europe/schedule.html

And finally... Casey West has issued the final Call For Comedy for 
his perl5-porters impressions BOF at the Perl Conference. Think you 
can be a more convincing me than I can? Step right up:

    http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters%40perl.org/msg60315.html

* What's new on www.perl.com?

The perl5-porters summary is here as usual, bringing you the latest 
on the scheduling of 5.7.2 and 5.8.0, new modules in the core, 
numeric hacking, PerlIO, how to do asynchronous callbacks, and much 
more:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/p5pdigest/20010709.html

Now, what do you think of when you hear the word "cryptography"? 
Big expensive computers? Men in black helicopters? PGP or GPG 
encrypting your mail? Maybe you don't think of Perl. Well, 
Abhijit Menon-Sen says you should. He's the author of a bunch of 
the Crypt:: modules, and he explains how to use Perl to keep your 
secrets... secret.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/10/crypto.html

Enjoy, and the next we meet, I shall be in Boston travelling down 
to TPC. Hope to see you there!

SC

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*** This Week's Features ***

Symmetric Cryptography in Perl
Abhijit Menon-Sen explains how to use Perl to keep your 
secrets... secret

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/10/crypto.html

***

Creating Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl
>From XML.com
Kip Hampton demonstrates how to use Perl, XML, and SVG to 
generate useful and attractive graphics dynamically. 

http://xml.com/pub/a/2001/07/11/creatingsvg.html

***

People Behind Perl: Nathan Torkington
So you use Perl, and you probably know that it was brought to you 
by "Larry Wall and a cast of thousands". But do you know these 
people that make up the Perl development team? Simon Cozens talks 
to Nathan Torkington, a long-time Perl developer and a mainstay 
of the Perl community.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/03/nat.html

***

Why Not Translate Perl to C?  
Mark-Jason Dominus explains why it might not be any faster to 
convert your code to a C program rather than let the Perl 
interpreter execute it.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/06/27/ctoperl.html

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