2023 was a rather productive year for me on CPAN. Aided by taking some time off I managed to release a whopping 18 new modules.

Passwords

• Crypt::HSM
• Crypt::Passphrase::Argon2::AES
• Crypt::Passphrase::Argon2::HSM
• Crypt::Passphrase::Linux
• Crypt::Passphrase::Pepper::HSM
• Crypt::Passphrase::Yescrypt
• Crypt::Yescrypt
• DBIx::Class::CryptColumn
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Passphrase

Half of my new modules were related to my password framework Crypt::Passphrase. To be honest most of them are either small (± 100 LOC) glue two or three other pieces of code together. And then there was Crypt::HSM, a PKCS11 interface (to use cryptographic hardware without exposing cryptographic keys) that was probably more work (2600 LOC of XS) than the others combined.

Most of this was with the aim to add peppering support to Crypt::Passphrase, a subject extensive enough that I should probably dedicate a separate blogpost to it.