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-Crypto++ is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes. Includes:
+Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.
+One purpose of Crypto++ is to act as a repository of public domain (not
+copyrighted) source code. Although the library is copyrighted as a
+compilation, the individual files in it (except for a few exceptions listed
+in the license) are in the public domain.
-* A class hierarchy with an API defined by abstract base classes
-* Proposed AES (and RC6, MARS, Twofish, Serpent, CAST-256)
-* Symmetric block cipers: IDEA, DES/Triple DES,DESX, RC2, RC5, Blowfish,
- Diamond2, TEA, SAFER, 3-WAY, GOST, SHARK, CAST-128, Square, Skipjack
-* Generic cipher modes: CBC padded/ciphertext stealing (CTS), CFB, OFB
-* Stream cipher: Panama, ARC4, SEAL, WAKE, Sapphire, BlumBlumShub
-* Public key: RSA, DSA, ElGamal, NR, BlumGoldwasser, Rabin/RW, LUC, LUCELG
-* Padding schemes for PK systems: PKCS#1 v2, OAEP, PSSR, IEEE P1363 EMSA2
-* Key agreement schemes: DH, DH2, MQV, LUCDIF, XTR-DH
-* Elliptic curve cryptography: ECDSA, ENR, EIES, ECDHD, ECMQVC
-* One-way hash functions: SHA-1/2, MD2/5, HAVAL, RIPEMD-160, Tiger, Panama
-* Message authentication codes: MD5-MAC, HMAC, XOR-MAC, CBC-MAC, DMAC
-* Cipher constructions from hash functions: Luby-Rackoff, MD
-* Pseudorandom number generators: ANSI X9.17 appendix C, PGP's RandPool
-* Shamir's secret sharing scheme/Rabin's information dispersal algorithm (IDA)
-* gzip, DEFLATE and zlib format support
-* Fast multiprecision integer (bignum) and polynomial operations
-* Prime number generation/verification, base-64 and 32-bit CRC encoding
-* A high level interface for most of the above
-WWW: http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/cryptlib.html
+WWW: http://www.cryptopp.com/
- George Reid
greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org