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Nettle - Cryptographic library

Nettle is a cryptographic library designed to fit any context: in crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages, in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. In most cases, users need more than basic cryptographic algorithms; they also need to keep track of available algorithms and their properties and variants. The algorithm selection process is often dictated by the protocol you want to implement. And since the requirements of applications differ, an API that fits one application well can be a pain to use in a different context, which is why there are so many different cryptographic libraries around.

Nettle avoids this problem by doing one thing, the low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but general interface to it. In particular, it doesn't do algorithm selection, memory allocation, or any I/O. However, users can build application- and context-specific interfaces on top of Nettle and share code, testcases, benchmarks, documentation, etc.



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Web pagehttp://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
Source tarballhttp://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-1.9.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/
Version 1.9 (stable) released on 2004-02-09
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual included and available in HTML format from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/nettle.html
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Help List<nettle-bugs@lists.lysator.liu.se> http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs

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Source languagesC
Related programslsh

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-03-11
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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