Nettle - a low-level cryptographic library

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.

Documentation

A complete manual is included if you download the Nettle source code. You can also read the manual online.

Download

Get the latest version by http or ftp. Nettle is also included with the latest development versions of lsh.

CVS access

As some shared but crucial files are not stored in the Nettle corner of the CVS repository, the recommended way of CVS access is to check out the entire LSH tree, as per the instructions at the LSH home page, run the top-level ./.bootstrap script (which sets up a few important symlinks and runs .bootstrap scripts in subdirectories), and then descend into the src/nettle directory for a standard ./configure && make there.

Contact

Send mail to the nettle-bugs mailinglist or directly to me at <nisse@lysator.liu.se> if you have any questions.