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| author | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2001-09-18 12:05:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2001-09-18 12:05:55 +0200 |
| commit | 866981e56849d39919169c5616640cfbba16085a (patch) | |
| tree | 7da3590062744221631fb4841434287c65a626f9 /README | |
| parent | 5ee4ad21d881a408f494bafc690a6c0e652058f9 (diff) | |
| download | nettle-866981e56849d39919169c5616640cfbba16085a.tar.gz | |
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ What is Nettle? A quote from the introduction in the Nettle Manual: algorithms, their properties and variants. You often have some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol you want to implement. - And as the requirements of applications differ on subtle and not so + And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and not so subtle ways, an API that fits one application well can be a pain to use in a different context. And that is why there are so many different cryptographic libraries around. @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ What is Nettle? A quote from the introduction in the Nettle Manual: memory allocation. It doesn't do any I/O. The idea is that one can build several application and context specific - interfaces on top of Nettle, and share the code, testcases, banchmarks, + interfaces on top of Nettle, and share the code, testcases, benchmarks, documentation, etc. For this first version, the only application using Nettle is LSH, and it uses an object-oriented abstraction on top of the library. |