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diff --git a/security/R-cran-digest/pkg-descr b/security/R-cran-digest/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1590b496d1ec --- /dev/null +++ b/security/R-cran-digest/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +The digest package provides a function 'digest' for the creation +of hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256 +and crc32 algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language +objects, as well as a function hmac() to create hash-based message +authentication code. The md5 algorithm by Ron Rivest is specified +in RFC 1321, the SHA-1 and SHA-256 algorithms are specified in +FIPS-180-1 and FIPS-180-2, and the crc32 algorithm is described in +ftp://ftp.rocksoft.com/cliens/rocksoft/papers/crc_v3.txt. For md5, +sha-1 and sha-256, this packages uses small standalone implementations +that were provided by Christophe Devine. For crc32, code from the +zlib library is used. Please note that this package is not meant +to be deployed for cryptographic purposes for which more comprehensive +(and widely tested) libraries such as OpenSSL should be used. + +WWW: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/digest/ |