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This package was debianized by Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> on
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Tue,  4 Nov 2003 18:23:07 +0100.
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The current Debian maintainer is Magnus Holmgren <magnus@kibibyte.se>.
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It was downloaded from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
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Upstream Author: Niels Möller
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Copyright:
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Copyright © 2001-2006 Niels Möller
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Some parts are Copyright © the Free Software Foundation and various
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people. See below and source code comments for details.
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   This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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   the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.
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   This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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   GNU General Public License for more details.
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   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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   along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
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   Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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   02110-1301, USA.
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Nettle is distributed under the GNU General Public License. However,
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most of the individual files are dual licensed under less restrictive
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licenses like the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or are in
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the public domain. This means that if you don't use the parts of
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nettle that are GPL-only, you have the option to use the Nettle
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library just as if it were licensed under the LGPL. To find the
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current status of particular files, you have to read the copyright
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notices at the top of the files.
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   A list of the supported algorithms, their origins and licenses (from
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   the manual):
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AES
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     The implementation of the AES cipher (also known as rijndael) is
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     written by Rafael Sevilla. Assembler for x86 by Rafael Sevilla and
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     Niels Möller, Sparc assembler by Niels Möller. Released under the
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     LGPL.
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ARCFOUR
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     The implementation of the ARCFOUR (also known as RC4) cipher is
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     written by Niels Möller. Released under the LGPL.
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ARCTWO
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     The implementation of the ARCTWO (also known as RC2) cipher is
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     written by Nikos Mavroyanopoulos and modified by Werner Koch and
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     Simon Josefsson. Released under the LGPL.
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BLOWFISH
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     The implementation of the BLOWFISH cipher is written by Werner
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     Koch, copyright owned by the Free Software Foundation. Also hacked
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     by Ray Dassen and Niels Möller. Released under the GPL.
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CAST128
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     The implementation of the CAST128 cipher is written by Steve Reid.
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     Released into the public domain.
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DES
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     The implementation of the DES cipher is written by Dana L. How, and
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     released under the LGPL.
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MD2
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     The implementation of MD2 is written by Andrew Kuchling, and hacked
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     some by Andreas Sigfridsson and Niels Möller. Python Cryptography
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     Toolkit license (essentially public domain).
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MD4
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     This is almost the same code as for MD5 below, with modifications
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     by Marcus Comstedt. Released into the public domain.
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MD5
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     The implementation of the MD5 message digest is written by Colin
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     Plumb.  It has been hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels
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SERPENT
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     The implementation of the SERPENT cipher is written by Ross
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     Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen, adapted to LSH by Rafael
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     Sevilla, and to Nettle by Niels Möller. Released under the GPL.
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SHA1
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     The C implementation of the SHA1 message digest is written by Peter
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     Gutmann, and hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels Möller.
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     Released into the public domain. Assembler for x86 by Niels Möller,
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     released under the LGPL.
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SHA256
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     Written by Niels Möller, using Peter Gutmann's SHA1 code as a
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     model.  Released under the LGPL.
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TWOFISH
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     The implementation of the TWOFISH cipher is written by Ruud de
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     Rooij.  Released under the LGPL.
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RSA
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     Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP
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     library for bignum operations.
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DSA
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     Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP
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     library for bignum operations.
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On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete texts of the GNU General
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Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found
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in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL,
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respectively.