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diff --git a/libraries/libgcrypt/README b/libraries/libgcrypt/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..156d75232c --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libgcrypt/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on 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. + +This requires libgpg-error (available at SlackBuilds.org) + |