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233e7676 | 1 | ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU |
2a6c6795 | 2 | ;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> |
2e659827 | 3 | ;;; |
233e7676 | 4 | ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. |
2e659827 | 5 | ;;; |
233e7676 | 6 | ;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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7 | ;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
8 | ;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
9 | ;;; your option) any later version. | |
10 | ;;; | |
233e7676 | 11 | ;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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12 | ;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
13 | ;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
14 | ;;; GNU General Public License for more details. | |
15 | ;;; | |
16 | ;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
233e7676 | 17 | ;;; along with GNU Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
2e659827 | 18 | |
1ffa7090 | 19 | (define-module (gnu packages nettle) |
4a44e743 | 20 | #:use-module (guix licenses) |
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21 | #:use-module (guix packages) |
22 | #:use-module (guix download) | |
23 | #:use-module (guix build-system gnu) | |
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24 | #:use-module (gnu packages multiprecision) |
25 | #:use-module (gnu packages m4)) | |
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26 | |
27 | (define-public nettle | |
28 | (package | |
29 | (name "nettle") | |
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30 | (version "2.6") |
31 | (source (origin | |
32 | (method url-fetch) | |
33 | (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/nettle/nettle-" | |
34 | version ".tar.gz")) | |
35 | (sha256 | |
36 | (base32 | |
37 | "0mminj3fg0vba8qx4q6dbf0xz6fskamli7z2r8rci5xrcd7n5pv0")))) | |
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38 | (build-system gnu-build-system) |
39 | (inputs `(("m4" ,m4))) | |
40 | (propagated-inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp))) | |
2a6c6795 | 41 | (home-page "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/") |
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42 | (synopsis "GNU Nettle, a cryptographic library") |
43 | (description | |
44 | "Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily | |
45 | in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented | |
46 | languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, | |
47 | or even in kernel space. In most contexts, you need more than the basic | |
48 | cryptographic algorithms, you also need some way to keep track of | |
49 | available algorithms, their properties and variants. You often have | |
50 | some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol you want | |
51 | to implement. | |
52 | ||
53 | And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and not so | |
54 | subtle ways, an API that fits one application well can be a pain to use | |
55 | in a different context. And that is why there are so many different | |
56 | cryptographic libraries around. \nNettle tries to avoid this problem by | |
57 | doing one thing, the low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but | |
58 | general interface to it. In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm | |
59 | selection. It doesn't do memory allocation. It doesn't do any I/O.") | |
4a44e743 | 60 | (license gpl2+))) |