Source: libdigest-perl-md5-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Florian Schlichting Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdigest-perl-md5-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdigest-perl-md5-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Digest-Perl-MD5 Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libdigest-perl-md5-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign 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