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| 2 | magnus | 1 | This package was debianized by Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> on | 
| 2 | Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:23:07 +0100. | ||
| 16 | magnus | 3 | The current Debian maintainer is Magnus Holmgren <magnus@kibibyte.se>. | 
| 2 | magnus | 4 | |
| 5 | It was downloaded from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | Upstream Author: Niels Möller | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | Copyright: | ||
| 10 | |||
| 16 | magnus | 11 | Copyright © 2001-2006 Niels Möller | 
| 12 | |||
| 13 | Some parts are Copyright © the Free Software Foundation and various | ||
| 14 | people. See below and source code comments for details. | ||
| 15 | |||
| 16 | |||
| 2 | magnus | 17 | This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | 
| 18 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | ||
| 19 | the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. | ||
| 20 | |||
| 21 | This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | ||
| 22 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | ||
| 23 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | ||
| 24 | GNU General Public License for more details. | ||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | ||
| 27 | along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software | ||
| 28 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA | ||
| 29 | 02110-1301, USA. | ||
| 30 | |||
| 16 | magnus | 31 | |
| 32 | Nettle is distributed under the GNU General Public License. However, | ||
| 33 | most of the individual files are dual licensed under less restrictive | ||
| 34 | licenses like the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or are in | ||
| 35 | the public domain. This means that if you don't use the parts of | ||
| 36 | nettle that are GPL-only, you have the option to use the Nettle | ||
| 37 | library just as if it were licensed under the LGPL. To find the | ||
| 38 | current status of particular files, you have to read the copyright | ||
| 39 | notices at the top of the files. | ||
| 40 | |||
| 41 | A list of the supported algorithms, their origins and licenses (from | ||
| 42 | the manual): | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | AES | ||
| 45 | The implementation of the AES cipher (also known as rijndael) is | ||
| 46 | written by Rafael Sevilla. Assembler for x86 by Rafael Sevilla and | ||
| 47 | Niels Möller, Sparc assembler by Niels Möller. Released under the | ||
| 48 | LGPL. | ||
| 49 | |||
| 50 | ARCFOUR | ||
| 51 | The implementation of the ARCFOUR (also known as RC4) cipher is | ||
| 52 | written by Niels Möller. Released under the LGPL. | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | ARCTWO | ||
| 55 | The implementation of the ARCTWO (also known as RC2) cipher is | ||
| 56 | written by Nikos Mavroyanopoulos and modified by Werner Koch and | ||
| 57 | Simon Josefsson. Released under the LGPL. | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | BLOWFISH | ||
| 60 | The implementation of the BLOWFISH cipher is written by Werner | ||
| 61 | Koch, copyright owned by the Free Software Foundation. Also hacked | ||
| 62 | by Ray Dassen and Niels Möller. Released under the GPL. | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | CAST128 | ||
| 65 | The implementation of the CAST128 cipher is written by Steve Reid. | ||
| 66 | Released into the public domain. | ||
| 67 | |||
| 68 | DES | ||
| 69 | The implementation of the DES cipher is written by Dana L. How, and | ||
| 70 | released under the LGPL. | ||
| 71 | |||
| 72 | MD2 | ||
| 73 | The implementation of MD2 is written by Andrew Kuchling, and hacked | ||
| 74 | some by Andreas Sigfridsson and Niels Möller. Python Cryptography | ||
| 75 | Toolkit license (essentially public domain). | ||
| 76 | |||
| 77 | MD4 | ||
| 78 | This is almost the same code as for MD5 below, with modifications | ||
| 79 | by Marcus Comstedt. Released into the public domain. | ||
| 80 | |||
| 81 | MD5 | ||
| 82 | The implementation of the MD5 message digest is written by Colin | ||
| 83 | Plumb. It has been hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels | ||
| 84 | Möller. Released into the public domain. | ||
| 85 | |||
| 86 | SERPENT | ||
| 87 | The implementation of the SERPENT cipher is written by Ross | ||
| 88 | Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen, adapted to LSH by Rafael | ||
| 89 | Sevilla, and to Nettle by Niels Möller. Released under the GPL. | ||
| 90 | |||
| 91 | SHA1 | ||
| 92 | The C implementation of the SHA1 message digest is written by Peter | ||
| 93 | Gutmann, and hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels Möller. | ||
| 94 | Released into the public domain. Assembler for x86 by Niels Möller, | ||
| 95 | released under the LGPL. | ||
| 96 | |||
| 97 | SHA256 | ||
| 98 | Written by Niels Möller, using Peter Gutmann's SHA1 code as a | ||
| 99 | model. Released under the LGPL. | ||
| 100 | |||
| 101 | TWOFISH | ||
| 102 | The implementation of the TWOFISH cipher is written by Ruud de | ||
| 103 | Rooij. Released under the LGPL. | ||
| 104 | |||
| 105 | RSA | ||
| 106 | Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP | ||
| 107 | library for bignum operations. | ||
| 108 | |||
| 109 | DSA | ||
| 110 | Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP | ||
| 111 | library for bignum operations. | ||
| 112 | |||
| 113 | |||
| 114 | On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete texts of the GNU General | ||
| 115 | Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found | ||
| 116 | in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL, | ||
| 117 | respectively. |