NAME Crypt::SKey - Perl S/Key calculator SYNOPSIS # In perl script: use Crypt::SKey qw(compute); $output = compute($sequence_num, $seed, $password); @output = compute($sequence_num, $seed, $password, $count); # Command line: perl -MCrypt::SKey -e key 500 fo099804 perl -MCrypt::SKey -e key 500 fo099804 100 # The following shell alias may be useful: alias key 'perl -MCrypt::SKey -e key' # This allows you to simply type: key 500 fo099804 DESCRIPTION This module contains a simple S/Key calculator (as described in RFC 1760) implemented in Perl. It exports the function "key" by default, and may optionally export the function "compute". "compute_md4", "compute_md5", "key_md4", and "key_md5" are provided as convenience functions for selecting either MD4 or MD5 hashes. The default is MD4; this may be changed with with the "$Crypt::SKey::HASH" variable, assigning it the value of "MD4" or "MD5". INSTALLATION Follow the usual steps for installing any Perl module: perl Makefile.PL make test make install FUNCTIONS "compute($sequence_num, $seed, $password [, $count])" "compute_md4($sequence_num, $seed, $password [, $count])" "compute_md5($sequence_num, $seed, $password [, $count])" Given three arguments, computes the hash value and returns it as a string containing six words separated by spaces. If $count is specified and greater than one, returns a list of several such strings. The meanings of the arguments is as follows: * sequence_number Which output in the sequence of calculated S/Key responses to generate. This is called "N" in RFC 1760. It will usually be the first number shown in an S/Key challenge. * seed This is a random seed. It is usually the second number/string shown in an S/Key challenge. * password This is your secret password. * count This argument is optional and defaults to "1". It specifies the number of S/Key responses to generate. This may be useful if you want to pre-generate a bunch of responses and print them on a piece of paper so that you don't need to have an S/Key calculator around later. "key()" "key_md4()" "key_md5()" Acts just like the 'key' executable program that comes with the standard distribution of s/key. Reads several arguments from the command line ("@ARGV"), prompts for the user's password, and prints one or more calculated s/key responses to "STDOUT". The command line arguments are, in order: * sequence_number * seed * count (optional) Their meanings are exactly the same as with the "compute" function above. NOTES If you care about security, you'd probably be better off using SSH than S/Key, because SSH encrypts your entire session whereas S/Key only encrypts your password. I wrote this module because nobody else seemed to have done it yet, and because sometimes I'm on systems with neither SSH nor the "key" program, but I want to telnet to a system that offers S/Key password transmission. The original "key" program takes the "count" parameter using the "-n" flag, but this version takes it as an optional final argument. Unless I hear from someone that needs the behavior changed, I'm not likely to add the "-n" flag. I currently have no plans to write any code that checks the validity of S/Key responses at login, i.e. the code that the server has to run when authenticating users. It shouldn't be hard, though, and if someone wants to send me a patch implementing this functionality I'll be happy to add it. AUTHOR Ken Williams, ken@forum.swarthmore.edu COPYRIGHT Copyright 2000-2002 Ken Williams. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO perl(1). RFC 1760. Digest::MD4(1). Digest::MD5(1). Term::ReadKey(1).