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diff --git a/security/p5-Data-Entropy/pkg-descr b/security/p5-Data-Entropy/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index e308b55388d9..000000000000 --- a/security/p5-Data-Entropy/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -This module maintains a concept of a current selection of entropy -source. Algorithms that require entropy can use the source nominated -by this module, avoiding the need for entropy source objects to be -explicitly passed around. This is convenient because usually one -entropy source will be used for an entire program run and so an -explicit entropy source parameter would rarely vary. There is also a -default entropy source, avoiding the need to explicitly configure a -source at all. - -If nothing is done to set a source then it defaults to the use of -Rijndael (AES) in counter mode (see -Data::Entropy::RawSource::CryptCounter and Crypt::Rijndael), keyed -using Perl's built-in rand function. This gives a data stream that -looks like concentrated entropy, but really only has at most the -entropy of the rand seed. Within a single run it is cryptographically -difficult to detect the correlation between parts of the -pseudo-entropy stream. If more true entropy is required then it is -necessary to configure a different entropy source. |