Perhaps https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bcrypt/index.html might be of assistance.
If not, drop a note back to the list as it'll be trivial to expand on that to give you an R alternative to Perl. On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:47 PM, MacQueen, Don <macque...@llnl.gov> wrote: > I have a file containing encrypted contents. The contents can be decrypted > using perl, like this: > > open (FILEHANDLE, "/path/to/file") > chomp ($ciphertext = <FILEHANDLE>); > > > use Crypt::CBC; > $cipher = Crypt::CBC->new( -key => 'my secret key', > -cipher => 'Blowfish' > ); > > $plaintext = $cipher->decrypt($ciphertext); > > > (See http://search.cpan.org/~lds/Crypt-CBC-2.33/CBC.pm) > > M goal is to have the value of $plaintext in an R object, so, is there an > R equivalent to this decrypt() perl function? > > I've found R packages > bcrypt > sodium > that appear to have potential, but I don't understand this business well > enough to figure out how to use them, if indeed they can be used, for > this. Help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > -Don > > -- > Don MacQueen > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > 7000 East Ave., L-627 > Livermore, CA 94550 > 925-423-1062 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
