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diff --git a/gnu/packages/nettle.scm b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6a0b6ef40a --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU +;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> +;;; +;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. +;;; +;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it +;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at +;;; your option) any later version. +;;; +;;; GNU Guix 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 General Public License for more details. +;;; +;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +;;; along with GNU Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +(define-module (gnu packages nettle) + #:use-module (guix licenses) + #:use-module (guix packages) + #:use-module (guix download) + #:use-module (guix build-system gnu) + #:use-module (gnu packages multiprecision) + #:use-module (gnu packages m4)) + +(define-public nettle + (package + (name "nettle") + (version "2.6") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/nettle/nettle-" + version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0mminj3fg0vba8qx4q6dbf0xz6fskamli7z2r8rci5xrcd7n5pv0")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (inputs `(("m4" ,m4))) + (propagated-inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp))) + (home-page "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/") + (synopsis "GNU Nettle, a cryptographic library") + (description + "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. In most contexts, you need more than the basic +cryptographic algorithms, you also need some way to keep track of +available algorithms, their properties and variants. You often have +some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol you want +to implement. + +And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and not so +subtle ways, an API that fits one application well can be a pain to use +in a different context. And that is why there are so many different +cryptographic libraries around. \nNettle tries to avoid this problem by +doing one thing, the low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but +general interface to it. In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm +selection. It doesn't do memory allocation. It doesn't do any I/O.") + (license gpl2+))) |