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1 | Authen-Passphrase-Scrypt version 0.001001 |
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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. | |
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| 16 | INSTALLATION | |
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| 18 | To install this module type the following: | |
| 19 | ||
| 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 | |
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| 36 | Copyright (C) 2017 by Marius Gavrilescu | |
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| 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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