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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/ |
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6 | Upstream Author: Niels Möller |
7 | Upstream Author: Niels Möller |
7 | 8 | ||
8 | Copyright: |
9 | Copyright: |
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- | 11 | Copyright © 2001-2006 Niels Möller |
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- | 12 | ||
- | 13 | Some parts are Copyright © the Free Software Foundation and various |
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- | 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. |
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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, |
15 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
22 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
16 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
23 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
17 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
24 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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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, |
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- | 33 | most of the individual files are dual licensed under less restrictive |
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- | 34 | licenses like the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or are in |
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- | 35 | the public domain. This means that if you don't use the parts of |
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- | 36 | nettle that are GPL-only, you have the option to use the Nettle |
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- | 37 | library just as if it were licensed under the LGPL. To find the |
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- | 38 | current status of particular files, you have to read the copyright |
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- | 39 | notices at the top of the files. |
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- | 41 | A list of the supported algorithms, their origins and licenses (from |
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- | 42 | the manual): |
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- | 43 | ||
- | 44 | AES |
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- | 45 | The implementation of the AES cipher (also known as rijndael) is |
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- | 46 | written by Rafael Sevilla. Assembler for x86 by Rafael Sevilla and |
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- | 47 | Niels Möller, Sparc assembler by Niels Möller. Released under the |
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- | 48 | LGPL. |
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- | 49 | ||
- | 50 | ARCFOUR |
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- | 51 | The implementation of the ARCFOUR (also known as RC4) cipher is |
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- | 52 | written by Niels Möller. Released under the LGPL. |
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- | 53 | ||
- | 54 | ARCTWO |
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- | 55 | The implementation of the ARCTWO (also known as RC2) cipher is |
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- | 56 | written by Nikos Mavroyanopoulos and modified by Werner Koch and |
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- | 57 | Simon Josefsson. Released under the LGPL. |
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- | 58 | ||
- | 59 | BLOWFISH |
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- | 60 | The implementation of the BLOWFISH cipher is written by Werner |
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- | 61 | Koch, copyright owned by the Free Software Foundation. Also hacked |
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- | 62 | by Ray Dassen and Niels Möller. Released under the GPL. |
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- | 63 | ||
- | 64 | CAST128 |
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- | 65 | The implementation of the CAST128 cipher is written by Steve Reid. |
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- | 66 | Released into the public domain. |
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- | 67 | ||
- | 68 | DES |
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- | 69 | The implementation of the DES cipher is written by Dana L. How, and |
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- | 70 | released under the LGPL. |
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- | 71 | ||
- | 72 | MD2 |
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- | 73 | The implementation of MD2 is written by Andrew Kuchling, and hacked |
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- | 74 | some by Andreas Sigfridsson and Niels Möller. Python Cryptography |
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- | 75 | Toolkit license (essentially public domain). |
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- | 77 | MD4 |
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- | 78 | This is almost the same code as for MD5 below, with modifications |
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- | 79 | by Marcus Comstedt. Released into the public domain. |
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- | 81 | MD5 |
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- | 82 | The implementation of the MD5 message digest is written by Colin |
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- | 83 | Plumb. It has been hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels |
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- | 84 | Möller. Released into the public domain. |
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- | 85 | ||
- | 86 | SERPENT |
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- | 87 | The implementation of the SERPENT cipher is written by Ross |
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- | 88 | Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen, adapted to LSH by Rafael |
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- | 89 | Sevilla, and to Nettle by Niels Möller. Released under the GPL. |
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- | 90 | ||
- | 91 | SHA1 |
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- | 92 | The C implementation of the SHA1 message digest is written by Peter |
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- | 93 | Gutmann, and hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels Möller. |
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- | 94 | Released into the public domain. Assembler for x86 by Niels Möller, |
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- | 95 | released under the LGPL. |
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- | 96 | ||
- | 97 | SHA256 |
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- | 98 | Written by Niels Möller, using Peter Gutmann's SHA1 code as a |
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- | 99 | model. Released under the LGPL. |
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- | 100 | ||
- | 101 | TWOFISH |
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- | 102 | The implementation of the TWOFISH cipher is written by Ruud de |
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- | 103 | Rooij. Released under the LGPL. |
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- | 105 | RSA |
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- | 106 | Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP |
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- | 107 | library for bignum operations. |
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- | 108 | ||
- | 109 | DSA |
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- | 110 | Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP |
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- | 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 |
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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. |