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@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ What is Nettle? A quote from the introduction in the Nettle Manual: cryptographic libraries around. Nettle tries to avoid this problem by doing one thing, the low-level - crypto stuff, and providing a @emph{simple} but general interface to it. + crypto stuff, and providing a simple but general interface to it. In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm selection. It doesn't do 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, 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. + interfaces on top of Nettle, and share the code, test cases, benchmarks, + documentation, etc. Examples are the Nettle module for the Pike + language, and LSH, which both use an object-oriented abstraction on top + of the library. Nettle 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 |