Fedora 20 Update: php-pecl-ssdeep-1.0.4-1.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-8660
2014-07-23 02:20:08
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Name        : php-pecl-ssdeep
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.0.4
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://pecl.php.net/package/ssdeep
Summary     : Wrapper for libfuzzy library
Description :
The ssdeep project page describes it as a library for
"...computing context triggered piecewise hashes (CTPH).
Also called fuzzy hashes, CTPH can match inputs that have homologies.
Such inputs have sequences of identical bytes in the same order,
although bytes in between these sequences may be different in both
content and length".

For an in depth paper explaining context triggered piecewise hashes please
see http://dfrws.org/2006/proceedings/12-Kornblum.pdf

This extensions wraps the ssdeep fuzzy hashing API created by Jesse Kornblum.

Documentation: http://php.net/ssdeep

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Update Information:

The ssdeep project page describes it as a library for "...computing context triggered piecewise hashes (CTPH). Also called fuzzy hashes, CTPH can match inputs that have homologies. Such inputs have sequences of identical bytes in the same order, although bytes in between these sequences may be different in both content and length".

For an in depth paper explaining context triggered piecewise hashes please see http://dfrws.org/2006/proceedings/12-Kornblum.pdf

This extensions wraps the ssdeep fuzzy hashing API created by Jesse Kornblum.

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1104032 - Review Request: php-pecl-ssdeep -  Wrapper for libfuzzy library
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104032
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update php-pecl-ssdeep' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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