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February 07th, 2011 Posted in Townsend Security Blog No Comments

Perl, Encryption, and Key Management

Perl has come a long way since Larry Wall developed and released it in 1987. It's cryptic syntax spawned a lot of jokes like this one:

Perl, the only language that looks the same forwards and backwards!

Of course, that’s not fair to modern Perl, but it does retain that reputation. That being said, Perl is one of the most successful computer languages and is now used on all major operating systems including Linux, UNIX, Windows, Mac, and IBM Mainframes (...