GNU Libgcrypt

This is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptograhic 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.

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1.2.3 stable released 2005-08-28

  • Released: 28 Aug, 2005
  • Code Maturity: Stable
  • Source Archive: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/
  • Licenses: LGPL
  • Interfaces: Command Line

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