Secure Internet Voting with Perl

  0  #!/usr/bin/perl
  1  # file: generate_vrns.pl

  2  use constant DIGITS => 100;
  3  my $id_count = shift;

  4  for (1..$id_count) {
  5      my $digits = random_digits(DIGITS);
  6      $digits =~ s/(.{25})/$1\n/g;
  7      print <<EOB;
  8  --REGISTRATION-START--
  9  $digits--REGISTRATION-END--

 10  EOB
 11  }

 12  sub random_digits {
 13      my $digits_desired = shift;
 14      open(RAND,'/dev/urandom') or die "Can't open random number device: $!";
 15      my $data;
 16      read(RAND,$data,$digits_desired) or die "Can't read random bytes: $!";
 17      my @digits = map {$_ % 10} unpack('C*',$data);
 18      return join '', @digits[0..$digits_desired-1];
 19  }