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52 lines
1.8 KiB
Nix
52 lines
1.8 KiB
Nix
{ fetchurl, stdenv, gmp, gnum4 }:
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stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
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name = "nettle-2.0";
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src = fetchurl {
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# Eventually use `mirror://gnu/'.
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url = "ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/security/lsh/${name}.tar.gz";
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sha256 = "1mnb2zx6yxfzkkv8hnrjzhjviybd45z92wq4y5sv1gskp4qf5fb5";
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};
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buildInputs = [ gmp gnum4 ];
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doCheck = (stdenv.system != "i686-cygwin");
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patches = stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin")
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./cygwin.patch;
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meta = {
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description = "GNU Nettle, a cryptographic library";
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longDescription = ''
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Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit
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easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for
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object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in
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applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. In
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most contexts, you need more than the basic cryptographic
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algorithms, you also need some way to keep track of available
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algorithms, their properties and variants. You often have
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some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol
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you want to implement.
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And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and
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not so subtle ways, an API that fits one application well can
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be a pain to use in a different context. And that is why
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there are so many different cryptographic libraries around.
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Nettle tries to avoid this problem by doing one thing, the
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low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but general
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interface to it. In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm
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selection. It doesn't do memory allocation. It doesn't do any
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I/O.
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'';
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license = "GPLv2+";
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homepage = http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/;
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maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
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};
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}
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