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   1 Authen-Passphrase-Scrypt version 0.001
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   4 This is experimental code, DO NOT USE in security-critical software.
   5
   6 Scrypt is a key derivation function that was originally developed for
   7 use in the Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more
   8 secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions
   9 such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.
  10
  11 Authen::Passphrase::Scrypt is a module for hashing and verifying
  12 passphrases using scrypt. It offers the same interface as
  13 Authen::Passphrase. It is not however possible to use this module from
  14 within Authen::Passphrase.
  15
  16 INSTALLATION
  17
  18 To install this module type the following:
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  20    perl Makefile.PL
  21    make
  22    make test
  23    make install
  24
  25 DEPENDENCIES
  26
  27 This module requires these other modules and libraries:
  28
  29 * OpenSSL (-lcrypto)
  30 * Authen::Passphrase
  31 * Class::Accessor::Fast
  32 * Data::Entropy::Algorithms
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  34 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
  35
  36 Copyright (C) 2017 by Marius Gavrilescu
  37
  38 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  39 it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.24.1 or,
  40 at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
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  42