RFA: libcrypt-hcesha-perl -- Perl extension for one way hash chaining encryption using SHA
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the libcrypt-hcesha-perl package. It is
primarily of interest as a dependancy of the OpenSRS client code for
domain registrations (see Bug#146456).
There are no serious problems with the package, it should be fine for
sarge. Eventually it could use a Standards-Version update and a uscan
watch file. A new upstream version is available but the changelog only
lists test changes for Windows.
The package description is:
This module implements a chaining block cipher using a one way hash. This
method of encryption is the same that is used by radius (RFC2138) and is also
described in Applied Cryptography.
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Two interfaces are provided in the module. The first is straight block
encryption/decryption the second does base64 mime encoding/decoding of the
encrypted/decrypted blocks.
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The idea is the the two sides have a shared secret that supplies one of the
keys and a randomly generated block of bytes provides the second key. The
random key is passed in cleartext between the two sides.
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An example client and server are packaged as modules with this module. They
are used in the tests. They can be found in the examples directory.
--
_ivan
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