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This module implements a wrapper around OpenSSL. Specifically, it wraps the
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methods related to the US Government's Advanced Encryption Standard (the
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Rijndael algorithm).
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This module is compatible with Crypt::CBC (and likely other modules that
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utilize a block cipher to make a stream cipher).
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This module is an alternative to the implementation provided by Crypt::Rijndael
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which implements AES itself. In contrast, this module is simply a wrapper
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around the OpenSSL library.
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The Crypt::Rijndael implementation seems to produce inaccurate results on
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64-bit x86 machines. By using OpenSSL, this module aims to avoid architecture
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specific problems, allowing the OpenSSL maintainers to overcome such issues.
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