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diff --git a/security/p5-Crypt-OpenPGP/pkg-descr b/security/p5-Crypt-OpenPGP/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f26496b779a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/p5-Crypt-OpenPGP/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Crypt::OpenPGP is a pure-Perl implementation of the OpenPGP standard[1]. +In addition to support for the standard itself, Crypt::OpenPGP claims +compatibility with many other PGP implementations, both those that +support the standard and those that preceded it. + +Crypt::OpenPGP provides signing/verification, encryption/decryption, +keyring management, and key-pair generation; in short it should provide +you with everything you need to PGP-enable yourself. Alternatively it can +be used as part of a larger system; for example, perhaps you have a +web-form-to-email generator written in Perl, and you'd like to encrypt +outgoing messages, because they contain sensitive information. +Crypt::OpenPGP can be plugged into such a scenario, given your public +key, and told to encrypt all messages; they will then be readable only by +you. + +This module currently supports RSA and DSA for digital signatures, and +RSA and ElGamal for encryption/decryption. It supports the symmetric +ciphers 3DES, Blowfish, IDEA, Twofish, and Rijndael (AES). Rijndael is +supported for key sizes of 128, 192, and 256 bits. Crypt::OpenPGP +supports the digest algorithms MD5, SHA-1, and RIPE-MD/160. And it +supports ZIP and Zlib compression. |