NAME

Crypt::Passphrase::Linux - An linux crypt encoder for Crypt::Passphrase

VERSION

version 0.004

SYNOPSIS

my $passphrase = Crypt::Passphrase->new(encoder => {
  module => 'Linux',
  type   => 'sha512',
  rounds => 656_000,
});

DESCRIPTION

This class implements a Crypt::Passphrase encoder compatible with Linux' crypt. This is useful when needing to specifically support the sha256 and sha512 password types.

ARGUMENTS

• type

  This choses the crypt type. It supports the following crypt types: sha512 (default), sha256, md5, apache_md5 and des.

• rounds

  The number of rounds using by the crypt implementation. This defaults to 656000, but may change at any time in the future. It is ignored for des.

AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2023 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.