Package: wnpp Owner: Florian Schlichting <[email protected]> Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected],[email protected]
* Package name : libdigest-perl-md5-perl Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Christian Lackas <[email protected]> * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Digest-Perl-MD5 * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl Implementation of Rivest's MD5 algorithm Digest::Perl::MD5s has the same interface as the much faster Digest::MD5, but unlike that, it is not an interface but a Perl implementation of MD5. Because of this it is slow but it works without C-Code. You should use Digest::MD5 instead of this module if it is available. This module is only useful for - computers where you cannot install Digest::MD5 (e.g. lack of a C-Compiler) - encrypting only small amounts of data (less than one million bytes), e.g. hashing passwords. - educational purposes libdigest-perl-md5-perl is a dependency of libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl, which uses its internal state in its decryption routines and hence cannot be switched to use Digest::MD5 instead. It will be maintained by pkg-perl. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
