encrypt 0.8 review

encrypt turns any plaintext word into an encrypted string in a variety of ways, including reading a random word from a file

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 49K Developer: Suso Banderas

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encrypt turns any plaintext word into an encrypted string in a variety of ways, including reading a random word from a file. It can be useful for creating passwords for .htpasswd files for webservers. It's also very useful for generating random passwords out of a cronjob.

The program has also and a man page.

But most people will use it like this:
encrypt -s 'dZ' mypassword
dZVuMBk8/bQsk
mypassword
Or you can have it generate a random password for you:
encrypt -r 8
lHtmBvBVUSWt2
WjM0GUf
Check out the man page 'man encrypt' for more information and examples.

Any user will be able to use encrypt in their own userspace. You can also run 'make install' as root and it will put the program, man page and config file in the locations specified in the Makefile. You may want to run 'make test' first to make sure you have everything that is needed to run the program first.

What's New in This Release:
Updated the README file so as to explain where you can get Term::ReadKey if you don't already have it. Also gave a few examples of how to use the program.
Changed the CLI arg to be 'shift'ed instead of referenced by $ARGS[0];
Added the -F option for specifying a file to read username:clearpasswordlines from and translate them into username:encrypted lines. This feature was requested and provided by Jeff Painter(painter@kiasoft.com).
Misc. code formatting changes.
Fixed Makefile man page installation problem(Thanks to stein@peyote.snafu.de) and also added a Term::ReadKey testing line.
Man page updates.