Source: libdigest-perl-md5-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Florian Schlichting Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libdigest-perl-md5-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libdigest-perl-md5-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Digest-Perl-MD5 Package: libdigest-perl-md5-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} 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