>> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Dmitry E. Oboukhov <un...@debian.org> >> >> Package name : libdigest-sha1-perl >> Version : 2.13 >> Upstream Author : Gisle Aas <gi...@activestate.com> >> URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Digest-SHA1/ >> License : Artistic or GPL-1+ >> Programming Lang: Perl >> Description : Perl interface to the SHA-1 algorithm >> >> The Digest::SHA1 module allows you to use the NIST SHA-1 message digest >> algorithm from within Perl programs. The algorithm takes as input a message >> of arbitrary length and produces as output a 160-bit "fingerprint" or >> "message digest" of the input. >> . >> The Digest::SHA1 module provide a procedural interface for simple use, as >> well as an object oriented interface that can handle messages of arbitrary >> length and which can read files directly.
> Out of curiosity, how does this compare to Digest::SHA > (libdigest-sha-perl), which is already in the archive, and supports SHA1 > and a couple of others too? > Digest::SHA appears to have a very similar interface too. I try to package one big project that uses some such modules, so I thought to package all them before... -- . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov : :’ : email: un...@debian.org jabber://un...@uvw.ru `. `~’ GPGKey: 1024D / F8E26537 2006-11-21 `- 1B23 D4F8 8EC0 D902 0555 E438 AB8C 00CF F8E2 6537
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