Package
libnettle6Version
3.2-1ubuntu0.16.04.1Priority
importantSection
libsSource
nettleOrigin
UbuntuMaintainer
Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>Original Maintainer
Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>Bugs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebugInstalled Size
358 kBDepends
libc6 (>= 2.14)Homepage
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/Task
minimal, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-sdk-libsSupported
5yDownload Size
93.5 kBAPT Manual Installed
yesAPT Sources
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 PackagesDescription
low level cryptographic library (symmetric and one-way cryptos)Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or
less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++,
Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel
space.
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It tries to solve a problem of providing a common set of cryptographic
algorithms for higher-level applications by implementing a
context-independent set of cryptographic algorithms. In that light, Nettle
doesn't do any memory allocation or I/O, it simply provides the
cryptographic algorithms for the application to use in any environment and
in any way it needs.
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This package contains the symmetric and one-way cryptographic
algorithms. To avoid having this package depend on libgmp, the
asymmetric cryptos reside in a separate library, libhogweed.