Information about the package, perl-Crypt-RSA, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Crypt-RSA package is designed for, RSA public-key cryptosystem.
Package Name:
perl-Crypt-RSA
Summary:
RSA public-key cryptosystem
Description:
Crypt::RSA is a pure-perl, cleanroom implementation of the RSA public-key cryptosystem. It uses Math::Pari(3), a perl interface to the blazingly fast PARI library, for big integer arithmetic and number theoretic computations. Crypt::RSA provides arbitrary size key-pair generation, plaintext-aware encryption (OAEP) and digital signatures with appendix (PSS). For compatibility with SSLv3, RSAREF2, PGP and other applications that follow the PKCS #1 v1.5 standard, it also provides PKCS #1 v1.5 encryption and signatures.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.99
Release:
2.el6
Size:
87 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Crypt-RSA package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Crypt-RSA
This command will install perl-Crypt-RSA on the server.
yum remove perl-Crypt-RSA
This command will un-install perl-Crypt-RSA on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Crypt-RSA, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Crypt-RSA
This command will un-install perl-Crypt-RSA 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-RSA when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Crypt-RSA
This command will update perl-Crypt-RSA to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Crypt-RSA, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Crypt-RSA
This command will update perl-Crypt-RSA 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-RSA when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Crypt-RSA
This command will show you core information about the perl-Crypt-RSA package.
yum deplist perl-Crypt-RSA
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Crypt-RSA. 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-RSA
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Crypt-RSA. 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.