Source: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Alexandre Mestiashvili Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), perl Standards-Version: 4.4.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libstring-compare-constanttime-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libstring-compare-constanttime-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/String-Compare-ConstantTime Package: libstring-compare-constanttime-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: module for protecting string comparison from timing attacks String::Compare::ConstantTime provides one function, equals(), which takes two strings of the same length as arguments. It will return true if they are string-wise identical and false otherwise, just like eq. However, comparing any two differing strings will take a fixed amount of time, unlike eq.