From 2e659827253d1d58176437ec37cbcee804130c56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:43:30 +0100
Subject: distro: Add GNU Nettle.
* distro/packages/nettle.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it.
---
distro/packages/nettle.scm | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 distro/packages/nettle.scm
(limited to 'distro')
diff --git a/distro/packages/nettle.scm b/distro/packages/nettle.scm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8e698fd89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/distro/packages/nettle.scm
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+;;; Guix --- Nix package management from Guile. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+;;; Copyright (C) 2012 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of Guix.
+;;;
+;;; 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.
+;;;
+;;; 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 Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (distro packages nettle)
+ #:use-module (guix packages)
+ #:use-module (guix download)
+ #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
+ #:use-module (distro packages multiprecision)
+ #:use-module (distro packages m4))
+
+(define-public nettle
+ (package
+ (name "nettle")
+ (version "2.5")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "mirror://gnu/nettle/nettle-"
+ version
+ ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "0wicr7amx01l03rm0pzgr1qvw3f9blaw17vjsy1301dh13ll58aa"))))
+ (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 "GPLv2+")))
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