Bug#745772: ITP: libdigest-perl-md5-perl -- Perl Implementation of Rivest's MD5 algorithm
Package: wnpp
Owner: Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name : libdigest-perl-md5-perl
Version : 1.9
Upstream Author : Christian Lackas <delta@lackas.net>
* 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.
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