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diff --git a/security/hs-cryptohash-md5/pkg-descr b/security/hs-cryptohash-md5/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..eca0e4ce7c25 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/hs-cryptohash-md5/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +A practical incremental and one-pass, pure API to the MD5 hash algorithm +(including HMAC support) with performance close to the fastest implementations +available in other languages. + +The implementation is made in C with a haskell FFI wrapper that hides the C +implementation. + +NOTE: This package has been forked off cryptohash-0.11.7 because the cryptohash +package has been deprecated and so this package continues to satisfy the need +for a lightweight package providing the MD5 hash algorithm without any +dependencies on packages other than base and bytestring. + +Consequently, this package can be used as a drop-in replacement for cryptohash's +Crypto.Hash.MD5 module, though with a clearly smaller footprint. + +WWW: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cryptohash-md5 |