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NAME

Task::Digest - Task to install all available cryptographic message digests

DESCRIPTION

This distribution contains no actual code; it simply exists to provide a list of dependencies to assist in quickly installing all available cryptographic message digests.

MODULES

BENCHMARKS

This distribution contains a benchmarking script which compares the available message digest algorithms. These are the results on a MacBook 2GHz Core 2 Duo (64-bit) with Perl 5.12.2, using a message size of 1KB:

md4          293107/s   286 MB/s
md5          245759/s   240 MB/s
skein_512    229376/s   224 MB/s
bmw_384      210823/s   206 MB/s
bmw_512      206279/s   201 MB/s
skein_256    196495/s   192 MB/s
blake_512    150904/s   147 MB/s
blake_384    150904/s   147 MB/s
bmw_256      132741/s   130 MB/s
bmw_224      131522/s   128 MB/s
blake_224    120471/s   118 MB/s
blake_256    119300/s   117 MB/s
skein_1024   118153/s   115 MB/s
sha_sha_1    117028/s   114 MB/s
sha1_sha_1   105412/s   103 MB/s
shabal_224    97303/s    95 MB/s
shabal_512    96376/s    94 MB/s
shabal_256    96376/s    94 MB/s
shabal_384    94575/s    92 MB/s
sha_256       76799/s    75 MB/s
sha_512       76561/s    75 MB/s
sha_384       73770/s    72 MB/s
sha_224       73770/s    72 MB/s
keccak_256    59076/s    58 MB/s
keccak_224    59076/s    58 MB/s
luffa_256     54613/s    53 MB/s
luffa_224     54097/s    53 MB/s
keccak_384    48432/s    47 MB/s
md6_224       47287/s    46 MB/s
fugue_256     46849/s    46 MB/s
fugue_224     46849/s    46 MB/s
shavite3_256  46849/s    46 MB/s
shavite3_224  46849/s    46 MB/s
md6_256       44660/s    44 MB/s
groestl_256   41353/s    40 MB/s
groestl_224   40959/s    40 MB/s
luffa_384     40573/s    40 MB/s
echo_256      38745/s    38 MB/s
echo_224      38745/s    38 MB/s
md6_384       36202/s    35 MB/s
keccak_512    33185/s    32 MB/s
fugue_384     31508/s    31 MB/s
simd_256      30632/s    30 MB/s
simd_224      30632/s    30 MB/s
md6_512       30351/s    30 MB/s
shavite3_512  30075/s    29 MB/s
shavite3_384  30075/s    29 MB/s
luffa_512     29805/s    29 MB/s
cubehash_512  27926/s    27 MB/s
cubehash_224  27926/s    27 MB/s
cubehash_384  27926/s    27 MB/s
cubehash_256  27926/s    27 MB/s
hamsi_256     24889/s    24 MB/s
hamsi_224     24888/s    24 MB/s
whirlpool     24660/s    24 MB/s
fugue_512     23209/s    23 MB/s
echo_512      21154/s    21 MB/s
echo_384      21154/s    21 MB/s
groestl_512   17935/s    18 MB/s
groestl_384   17772/s    17 MB/s
simd_512      17612/s    17 MB/s
simd_384      17612/s    17 MB/s
jh_384        14354/s    14 MB/s
jh_256        14354/s    14 MB/s
jh_224        14354/s    14 MB/s
jh_512        14221/s    14 MB/s
hamsi_384      7518/s     7 MB/s
hamsi_512      7518/s     7 MB/s
md2            5338/s     5 MB/s
perl_sha_1      175/s  0.17 MB/s
perl_sha_224    129/s  0.13 MB/s
perl_sha_256    129/s  0.13 MB/s
perl_md5         75/s  0.07 MB/s
perl_md4         75/s  0.07 MB/s
perl_sha_512     61/s  0.06 MB/s
perl_sha_384     61/s  0.06 MB/s

SEE ALSO

Digest

REQUESTS AND BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Task-Digest. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Task::Digest

You can also look for information at:

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 gray <gray at cpan.org>, all rights reserved.

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

AUTHOR

gray, <gray at cpan.org>