You can use this script any way you want to; in fact it’s written with a few things left out (how you want to deal with shell special characters — another complete post on its own — and if you want to expand on it to read and/or write to STDIN/STDOUT so you can pipe one instance to another, even though that defeats the purpose to a certain degree).



I’ve included usage points in the comments section of the script, but the basic usage would be:

tranz.pl encode your message here
tranz.pl decode 458616e6b6370264f62702659637964796e6760245865602c496e657870216e6460255e6968702d456e6167656279656 <-- The Hex output from a message encoded with this script.




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#!/usr/bin/perl

#
# 2007 - Mike Golvach - eggi@comcast.net
# Sanitize shell special characters in
# whatever manner you prefer - or just
# backslash them on the command line :)
#
# Sample usage:
# trans.pl encode hi there
# trans.pl encode hi there >FILE
# trans.pl encode `cat FILE`
# trans.pl decode 8696024786562756
# trans.pl decode `cat FILE`
#
# Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
#

$input = $ARGV[0];
shift @ARGV;
$message = join(" ",@ARGV);

if ( $input eq "encode")        {
        $output=unpack("h*",$message);
        @length=$output=~/.{0,256}/g;
        print("$output n");
}       elsif ( $input eq "decode" )    {
        chomp($message);
        $output.=pack"h*",$message;
        print "n$outputn";
}       else    {
        print "Usage: (.*?) [encode|decode] whatever you want to typen";
        exit(1)
}

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: Simple Encryption and Decryption For Fun And No Profit.