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gwenhywfar-5.14.1

helper library for networking and security applications

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Description

Gwenhywfar is a multi-platform (*BSD, Linux, MS-Win, etc.) helper library for networking and security applications and libraries. It is used by various 'finance' software, and possibly others. Gwenhywfar includes the following features, among several others: - OS abstraction functions for directory and Internet address handling and library loading (src/os/) - Networking functions which allow managing many connections to be used economically even in single threaded applications - High-level functions for parsing files with a simplified "XML-like" format and accessing them like a hierarchical database (src/parser/) It is able to process valid XML files, too. - High-level cryptographic functions on top of OpenSSL functionality (src/crypt/)

Package information

Ports path
devel/gwenhywfar
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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