| 1,5 → 1,6 |
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| This package was debianized by Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> on |
| Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:23:07 +0100. |
| 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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| 7,6 → 8,12 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. |
| 21,5 → 28,90 |
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| Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA |
| 02110-1301, USA. |
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| On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General |
| Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. |
| |
| Nettle is distributed under the GNU General Public License. However, |
| most of the individual files are dual licensed under less restrictive |
| licenses like the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or are in |
| the public domain. This means that if you don't use the parts of |
| nettle that are GPL-only, you have the option to use the Nettle |
| library just as if it were licensed under the LGPL. To find the |
| current status of particular files, you have to read the copyright |
| notices at the top of the files. |
| |
| A list of the supported algorithms, their origins and licenses (from |
| the manual): |
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| AES |
| The implementation of the AES cipher (also known as rijndael) is |
| written by Rafael Sevilla. Assembler for x86 by Rafael Sevilla and |
| Niels Möller, Sparc assembler by Niels Möller. Released under the |
| LGPL. |
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| ARCFOUR |
| The implementation of the ARCFOUR (also known as RC4) cipher is |
| written by Niels Möller. Released under the LGPL. |
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| ARCTWO |
| The implementation of the ARCTWO (also known as RC2) cipher is |
| written by Nikos Mavroyanopoulos and modified by Werner Koch and |
| Simon Josefsson. Released under the LGPL. |
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| BLOWFISH |
| The implementation of the BLOWFISH cipher is written by Werner |
| Koch, copyright owned by the Free Software Foundation. Also hacked |
| by Ray Dassen and Niels Möller. Released under the GPL. |
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| CAST128 |
| The implementation of the CAST128 cipher is written by Steve Reid. |
| Released into the public domain. |
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| DES |
| The implementation of the DES cipher is written by Dana L. How, and |
| released under the LGPL. |
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| MD2 |
| The implementation of MD2 is written by Andrew Kuchling, and hacked |
| some by Andreas Sigfridsson and Niels Möller. Python Cryptography |
| Toolkit license (essentially public domain). |
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| MD4 |
| This is almost the same code as for MD5 below, with modifications |
| by Marcus Comstedt. Released into the public domain. |
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| MD5 |
| The implementation of the MD5 message digest is written by Colin |
| Plumb. It has been hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels |
| Möller. Released into the public domain. |
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| SERPENT |
| The implementation of the SERPENT cipher is written by Ross |
| Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen, adapted to LSH by Rafael |
| Sevilla, and to Nettle by Niels Möller. Released under the GPL. |
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| SHA1 |
| The C implementation of the SHA1 message digest is written by Peter |
| Gutmann, and hacked some more by Andrew Kuchling and Niels Möller. |
| Released into the public domain. Assembler for x86 by Niels Möller, |
| released under the LGPL. |
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| SHA256 |
| Written by Niels Möller, using Peter Gutmann's SHA1 code as a |
| model. Released under the LGPL. |
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| TWOFISH |
| The implementation of the TWOFISH cipher is written by Ruud de |
| Rooij. Released under the LGPL. |
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| RSA |
| Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP |
| library for bignum operations. |
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| DSA |
| Written by Niels Möller, released under the LGPL. Uses the GMP |
| library for bignum operations. |
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| On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete texts of the GNU General |
| Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found |
| in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL, |
| respectively. |