Authen-Passphrase-Scrypt version 0.001001
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This is experimental code, DO NOT USE in security-critical software.

Scrypt is a key derivation function that was originally developed for
use in the Tarsnap online backup system and is designed to be far more
secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions
such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.

Authen::Passphrase::Scrypt is a module for hashing and verifying
passphrases using scrypt. It offers the same interface as
Authen::Passphrase. It is not however possible to use this module from
within Authen::Passphrase.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

* OpenSSL (-lcrypto)
* Authen::Passphrase
* Class::Accessor::Fast
* Data::Entropy::Algorithms

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2017 by Marius Gavrilescu

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.24.1 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.


