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libgcrypt-1.12.2

crypto library based on code used in GnuPG

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Description

This is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers (AES, DES, Blowfish, CAST5, Twofish, Arcfour), hash algorithms (MD4, MD5, RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, TIGER-192), MACs (HMAC for all hash algorithms), public key algorithms (RSA, ElGamal, DSA), large integer functions, random numbers and a lot of supporting functions.

Package information

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

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