[libsession-token-perl] 03/03: Updated debian/control

[Per Carlson]

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commit a7b62f5f2f6b6c543f6ef2222cffc6c9b863b434
Author: Per Carlson <pelle at hemmop.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 10 22:37:37 2015 +0100

    Updated debian/control
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 debian/control | 32 +-------------------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c3d4e98..d318c68 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,37 +14,7 @@ Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl
 Package: libsession-token-perl
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: unknown
+Description: Secure, efficient, simple random session token generation
  Session::Token provides a secure, efficient, and simple interface for
  creating session tokens, password reset codes, temporary passwords, random
  identifiers, and anything else you can think of.
- .
- When a Session::Token object is created, 1024 bytes are read from
- /dev/urandom (Linux, Solaris, most BSDs), /dev/arandom (some older BSDs), or
- Crypt::Random::Source::Strong::Win32 (Windows). These bytes are used to seed
- the ISAAC-32|http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html pseudo random
- number generator.
- .
- Once a generator is created, you can repeatedly call the get method on the
- generator object and it will return a new token each time.
- .
- IMPORTANT: If your application calls fork, make sure that any generators are
- re-created in one of the processes after the fork since forking will
- duplicate the generator state and both parent and child processes will go on
- to produce identical tokens (just like perl's rand after it is seeded).
- .
- After the generator context is created, no system calls are used to generate
- tokens. This is one way that Session::Token helps with efficiency. However,
- this is only important for certain use cases (generally not web sessions).
- .
- ISAAC is a cryptographically secure PRNG that improves on the well-known RC4
- algorithm in some important areas. For instance, it doesn't have short cycles
- or initial bias like RC4 does. A theoretical shortest possible cycle in ISAAC
- is 2**40, although no cycles this short have ever been found (and probably
- don't exist at all). On average, ISAAC cycles are 2**8295.
- .
- Creators of server applications must choose whether a single generator will
- be kept around and used to generate all tokens, or if a new Session::Token
- object will be created every time a token is needed.
- .
- This description was automagically extracted from the module by dh-make-perl.

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