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| 1 | This package was debianized by Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> on | 1 | This package was debianized by Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> on | 
| 2 | Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:23:07 +0100. | 2 | Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:23:07 +0100. | 
| - | 3 | The current Debian maintainer is Magnus Holmgren <magnus@kibibyte.se>. | |
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| 4 | It was downloaded from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ | 5 | It was downloaded from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ | 
| 5 | 6 | ||
| 6 | Upstream Author: Niels Möller | 7 | Upstream Author: Niels Möller | 
| 7 | 8 | ||
| 8 | Copyright: | 9 | Copyright: | 
| 9 | 10 | ||
| - | 11 | Copyright © 2001-2006 Niels Möller | |
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| - | 13 | Some parts are Copyright © the Free Software Foundation and various | |
| - | 14 | people. See below and source code comments for details. | |
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| 10 | This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | 17 | This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | 
| 11 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | 18 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | 
| 12 | the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. | 19 | the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. | 
| 13 | 20 | ||
| 14 | This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | 21 | This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | 
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| 19 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | 26 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | 
| 20 | along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software | 27 | along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software | 
| 21 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA | 28 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA | 
| 22 | 02110-1301, USA. | 29 | 02110-1301, USA. | 
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| - | 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. | |
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| - | 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. | |
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| - | 101 | TWOFISH | |
| - | 102 | The implementation of the TWOFISH cipher is written by Ruud de | |
| - | 103 | Rooij. Released under the LGPL. | |
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| - | 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. | |
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| 24 | On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General | 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 | |
| 25 | Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. | 116 | in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL, | 
| - | 117 | respectively. | |