Name : nettle
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Version : 1.10
| Vendor : Dries Apt/Yum Repository http://dries_ulyssis_org/ayo/
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Release : 2.2.el4.rf
| Date : 2005-02-17 23:05:14
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Group : Development/Libraries
| Source RPM : nettle-1.10-2.2.el4.rf.src.rpm
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Size : 2.20 MB
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Packager : Dries Verachtert < dries_ulyssis_org>
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Summary : Cryptographic library
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Description :
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: in crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, etc.), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. In most contexts, you need more than the basic cryptographic algorithms; you also need some way to keep track of available algorithms and their properties and variants. You often have some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol you want to implement. And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and not so subtle ways, 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 tries to avoid this problem by doing one thing, the low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but general interface to it. In particular, Nettle doesn\'t do algorithm selection. It doesn\'t do memory allocation. It doesn\'t do any I/O. The idea is that one can build several application- and context-specific interfaces on top of Nettle and share the code, testcases, benchmarks, documentation, etc.
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RPM found in directory: /mirror/vol4/ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/RPMS.dag |