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Author: Christian Forler <crypto@shortie.inka.de>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser
General Public License for more details.

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For the specifics of this license, see file 'COPYING', included in
this distribution.


Welcome to the ADA Crypto Library (ACL) aka libadacrypt-dev-0.1.0
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About ACL:
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This library is an ongoing project of Christian Forler. Its goal is
to provide "strong" and clean coded (no OOP, no pointer-arithmetics. Just
generic types ;-) cryptography.

Note that depending on where you are, the use of cryptography may be
limited or forbidden by law. Before using this library, make sure you
are legally entitled to do so.


Included in the library are:
    - Block ciphers: AES, Twofish, 3DES, Serpent
    - Hash functions: SHA-1 (broken), SHA-256, (SHA-384), SHA-512, Whirlpool
     -MACs: RMAC
    - Big (unsigned) number library
    - Probabilistic primality testing
    - DSA signature scheme
    - OEAP-RSA 
    - Modes of operations: counter, cfb, cbc, ofb


Planned for the future are:
    - Tiger2
    - HMAC
    - XOR-MAC
    - PSS-RSA
    - Heap and Stack burning
    - Zero-knowledge algorithms
    - More blockcipher modes 
    - Universal hashfunctions and MACs.

The library has been tested on the following platforms:
    - i686 (PentiunIII) with GNU/Linux and gnat-3.14
    - i686 (PentiumIII) with GNU/Linux and gnat-3.15
    - i686 (PentiumIV) with GNU/Linux and gnat-4.1  

NO WARRENTY
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This program is WITHOUT ANY (DAMN) WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty 
of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
See the  GNU General Public License for more details.


For more information, refer to the documentation in the 'docs' directory.

If you want to report bugs, make suggestions, contribute bugfixes or
enhancements, please contact me at mail: crypto@shortie.inka.de

Sincerely,
     Christian Forler

-- 
May the source be with you.