This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of Digest::MD5 (renamed to be libdigest-md5-perl). This is a Perl extension interface to the RSA Data Security Inc. MD5 and MD2 Message Digest algorithms. This package also provide modules which calculate HMAC digests. This package was put together by Michael Alan Dorman . The library is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit to find a CPAN site near you. The only change for the Debian package was the addition of the debian/ files. The Digest::MD5 copright is as follows: Copyright 1998-2001 Gisle Aas. Copyright 1995-1996 Neil Winton. Copyright 1990-1992 RSA Data Security, Inc. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.