I'll fix this in the next day or so and release 2.10.
Best~
-d

Lincoln Stein wrote:
> Crypt::Blowfish has a method called keysize() that is supposed to return the 
> key size in bytes, but it returns zero instead. The Crypt::Blowfish 2.09 
> documentation claims that the maximum key size is 56 bytes. Crypt::CBC checks 
> whether blowfish is in use, and if so sets the keysize to 56 bytes. There is 
> nothing in the Crypt::Blowfish documentation that indicates that a size of 
> 112 bytes will work.
> 
> Since Crypt::Blowfish doesn't return the keysize from the keysize() method, I 
> can only rely on the documentation to tell me what its desired keysize is.
> 
> Lincoln
> 
> On Saturday 13 August 2005 02:55 pm, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> 
>>There is a mystery regarding 56- vs 112-byte keys in Blowfish
>>via Perl on NetBSD. I can't test it at present on Win32 as the
>>PPM server at Univ. Winnipeg seems to be down. Attached is
>>a short Perl script which exemplifies the mystery with an easy
>>toggle for both cases.
>>
>>Affected NetBSD version is:
>>NetBSD 2.0.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 23 08:53:42 UTC 2005
>>
>>Affected Perl module packages are:
>>perl-5.8.6nb6 Practical Extraction and Report Language
>>p5-Crypt-Blowfish-2.09nb1
>>p5-Crypt-CBC-2.08nb1
>>
>>Full details are embeded within the attached Perl script. Copy it to
>>anywhere, chmod it 755 and run it.
>>
>>My question is whether this be a NetBSD package bug or a
>>Perl module bug or what?
>>
>>Respectfully,
>>
>>Gan Starling
>>Kalamazoo MI
> 
>