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You tried to install it without reading the POD?

DEPRECATED ^

This module has numerious known bugs, is not compatable with the Digest interface and its functionality is a subset of the functionality of Digest::SHA (which is in perl core as of 5.9.3).

Please use Digest::SHA instead of this module in new and old code.

For some purposes, Authen::Passphrase and its companions may be a good choice too. But Digest::SHA is pretty comprehensive.


Dave

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Re^2: SHA-2 and PERL
by tobyink (Canon) on Aug 05, 2012 at 06:23 UTC

    SHA-2 is the name given to a family of hash functions: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512. All four of those hash functions are implemented by Digest::SHA (which also implements SHA-1).

    As of Perl 5.10, Digest::SHA is bundled with Perl itself.

    perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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      Then it is just a simple misunderstanding of what I was reading about the various SHA digests and their family groupings.

      "SHA-1 produces a 160-bit hash."

      -Bruce Schneier blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis_o.html

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