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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. |
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15 | magnus | 3 | The current Debian maintainer is Magnus Holmgren <magnus@kibibyte.se>. |
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5 | It was downloaded from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/ |
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7 | Upstream Author: Niels Möller |
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9 | Copyright: |
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15 | magnus | 11 | Copyright © 2001-2006 Niels Möller |
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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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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 |
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19 | the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. |
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21 | This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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22 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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23 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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24 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
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26 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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27 | along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software |
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28 | Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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114 | On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete texts of the GNU General |
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115 | Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found |
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116 | in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL, |
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117 | respectively. |