Source: libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>,
           Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312),
               perl,
               libdevel-checklib-perl,
               libgmp-dev,
               libtest-requires-perl,
               perl (>= 5.11.1) | libextutils-parsexs-perl
Standards-Version: 3.9.5
Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl.git
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl.git
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-DH-GMP

Package: libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
         ${perl:Depends},
         ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Crypt::DH replacement that uses GMP directly
 Crypt::DH::GMP is a (somewhat) portable replacement to Crypt::DH, implemented
 mostly in C.
 .
 In the beginning, there was Crypt::DH. However, Crypt::DH suffers from a
 couple of problems: GMP/Pari libraries are almost always required; Crypt::DH
 additionally has Math::BigInt in between GMP. Instantiating an object
 comes with a relatively high cost, and if you make many computations in one
 go, your program will suffer dramatically because of this.
 .
 Crypt::DH::GMP attempts to alleviate these problems by providing a
 Crypt::DH-compatible layer, which, instead of doing calculations via
 Math::BigInt, directly works with libgmp in C.
 .
 This means that essentially 2 call stacks worth of expensive Perl method
 calls are eliminated and also only load 1 (Crypt::DH::GMP) module instead of
 3 (Crypt::DH + Math::BigInt + Math::BigInt::GMP) is needed.
 .
 These add up to a fairly significant increase in performance.