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24 lines
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Crypt::RSA is a pure-perl, cleanroom implementation of the RSA public-key
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cryptosystem. It uses Math::Pari(3), a perl interface to the blazingly fast
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PARI library, for big integer arithmetic and number theoretic computations.
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Crypt::RSA provides arbitrary size key-pair generation, plaintext-aware
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encryption (OAEP) and digital signatures with appendix (PSS). For compatibility
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with SSLv3, RSAREF2, PGP and other applications that follow the PKCS #1 v1.5
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standard, it also provides PKCS #1 v1.5 encryption and signatures.
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Crypt::RSA is structured as bundle of modules that encapsulate different parts
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of the RSA cryptosystem. The RSA algorithm is implemented in
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Crypt::RSA::Primitives(3). Encryption schemes, located under Crypt::RSA::ES,
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and signature schemes, located under Crypt::RSA::SS, use the RSA algorithm to
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build encryption/signature schemes that employ secure padding. (See the note on
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Security of Padding Schemes.)
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The key generation engine and other functions that work on both components of
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the key-pair are encapsulated in Crypt::RSA::Key(3). Crypt::RSA::Key::Public(3)
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& Crypt::RSA::Key::Private(3) provide mechanisms for storage & retrival of keys
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from disk, decoding & encoding of keys in certain formats, and secure
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representation of keys in memory. Finally, the Crypt::RSA module provides a
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convenient, DWIM wrapper around the rest of the modules in the bundle.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Crypt-RSA/
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