Information about the package, perl-Crypt-PBKDF2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 package is designed for, PBKDF2 password hashing algorithm.
Package Name:
perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
Summary:
PBKDF2 password hashing algorithm
Description:
PBKDF2 is a secure password hashing algorithm that uses the techniques of "key strengthening" to make the complexity of a brute-force attack arbitrarily high. PBKDF2 uses any other cryptographic hash or cipher (by convention, usually HMAC-SHA1, but Crypt::PBKDF2 is fully pluggable), and allows for an arbitrary number of iterations of the hashing function, and a nearly unlimited output hash size (up to 2**32 - 1 times the size of the output of the back-end hash). The hash is salted, as any password hash should be, and the salt may also be of arbitrary size.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.150900
Release:
1.el6
Size:
36 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on the server.
yum remove perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will un-install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Crypt-PBKDF2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will un-install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will update perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Crypt-PBKDF2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will update perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will show you core information about the perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 package.
yum deplist perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Crypt-PBKDF2. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Crypt-PBKDF2. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.