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diff --git a/gnu/packages/nettle.scm b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm index b8ba9bf04a..f93c914996 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/nettle.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm @@ -41,20 +41,7 @@ (home-page "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/") (synopsis "C library for low-level crytographic functionality") (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.") + "Nettle is a low-level cryptographic library. It is designed to fit in +easily in almost any context. It can be easily included in cryptographic +toolkits for object-oriented languages or in applications themselves.") (license gpl2+))) |