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Subject: Announce: Cryptographic extensions for Perl
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Date: 7 May 1996 05:21:37 GMT
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                      CRYPTOGRAPHIC EXTENSIONS FOR PERL


    _________________________________________________________________

                                 DESCRIPTION

  This library contains a suite of cryptographic extensions for Perl.
  Also included are some extensions that have a cryptographic relevance,
  such as the Compress::Zlib modules, and the TrulyRandom module.

  These modules have been developed as extensions for performance
  reasons.

  Now available for download at http://www.systemics.com/software/


                                  FEATURES

  All of the following have been implemented as Perl extensions in C:
    * BigInteger module (based on code from Eric Young).
      This module implements arbitrary length integers and some
      associated mathematical functions.
    * Compress::Zlib module (by Paul Marquess).
      A Perl interface to Jean-loup Gailly's and Mark Adler's info-zip
      zlib compression library.
    * Crypt::DES module (DES implementation by Eric Young).
    * Crypt::IDEA module.
    * Crypt::MD5 module (by Neil Winton and Data Security, Inc.)
    * Crypt::PRSG - Pseudo random sequence generator
      This module implements a 160 bit LFSR for use in generating pseudo
      random sequences.
    * Crypt::SHA module (by Uwe Hollerbach and based on code from NIST
      and Peter C. Gutmann)
    * Utils::TrulyRandom module, based on code from Don Mitchell and
      Matt Blaze (AT&T).
      This module generates "truly random" numbers, based on interrupt
      timing discrepancies.

                                  COPYRIGHT

  This library includes (or is derived from) software developed by (and
  owned by) the following:
    * Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
    * Peter C. Gutmann
    * Uwe Hollerbach <[email protected]>
    * Paul Marquess <[email protected]>
    * Don Mitchell and Matt Blaze (AT&T)
    * NIST
    * RSA Data Security, Inc.
    * Systemics Ltd <http://www.systemics.com/>
    * Neil Winton <[email protected]>
    * Eric Young <[email protected]>




  Also planned for release:

        * Cryptographic library for Perl
        * PGP library for Perl
        * Cryptographic extensions for Java (native code)
        * Cryptographic library for Java
        * PGP library for Java

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