The upstream author is: Soenke J. Peters CRC algorithm code taken from CRC-32 by Craig Bruce. The module stuff is inspired by a similar perl module called String::CRC by David Sharnoff & Matthew Dillon. Horst Fickenscher told me that it could be useful to supply an init value to the crc checking function and so I included this possibility. The author of this package disclaims all copyrights and releases it into the public domain. The upstream sources can be obtained at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-CRC32/ The Debian packaging was carried out by Clint Adams and is now handled by the Debian pkg-perl group, http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-perl