Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2016-1238

Digest::SHA before 5.96 with perls earlier than v5.26 included the current working directory in the module search path, which could lead to the inadvernant loading of unexpected versions of a module. The current directory was removed from the default module search path in perls from v5.26 and later.

Changes for version 5.80 - 2012-12-10

  • obtained noticeable speedup on Intel/gcc
    • by setting -O1 and -fomit-frame-pointer
    • SHA-1 about 63% faster, SHA-2 improves 11-20%

Documentation

Print or Check SHA Checksums

Modules

Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512

Examples