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* Package name : libalt-crypt-rsa-bigint-perl
Version : 0.06
Upstream Author : Dana Jacobsen <dana@acm.org>
* URL or Web page : https://metacpan.org/pod/Alt::Crypt::RSA::BigInt
* License : Perl
Programming lang: Perl
Description : Alt::Crypt::RSA::BigInt pure perl implementation of RSA asymmetric cryptography
This is a modification of the Crypt::RSA module to remove all use and
dependencies on Pari and Math::Pari.
If GMP or Pari are available on the system (libmath-bigint-gmp-perl is
available in debian; Pari is not), then the system will be significantly
faster, but it should be functional without it. For Debian, that
probably means that this package should ultimately Recommends:
libmath-bigint-gmp-perl.
This package is an explicit dependency of Crypt::OpenPGP, which is
undergoing recent upstream modernization work by Tim Legge
(https://github.com/perl-Crypt-OpenPGP/Crypt-OpenPGP)
With Crypt::OpenPGP as a target, another approach would be to offer
patches to Crypt::OpenPGP to use Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA (which is already
in debian as libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl)), that would defeat the "pure
Perl" stated goal of Crypt::OpenPGP, so i don't think that
Crypt::OpenPGP upstream would be particularly receptive to that
approach.
--dkg
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