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Welcome to the BeeCrypt crypto library!
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Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Virtual Unlimited B.V.
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Author: Bob Deblier <bob@virtualunlimited.com>
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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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Lesser General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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For the specifics of this license, see file 'COPYING.LIB', included in
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this distribution.
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Welcome to version 2.2.0 of BeeCrypt:
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AES support has been added, and the library has been thoroughly debugged,
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with the addition of unit tests. Once you've built the library, you can
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verify the correct functioning with 'make check'.
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As usual, your comments are welcome.
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About BeeCrypt:
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This library is an ongoing project of Virtual Unlimited B.V. Its goal is
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to provide strong and fast cryptography for use by our products, but
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we're not limiting the use to that. We're releasing it under the LGPL
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license, because we feel that cryptography should be open to inspection
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by everybody, and available for use by everybody to safeguard privacy.
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Note that depending on where you are, the use of cryptography may be
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limited or forbidden by law. Before using this library, make sure you
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are legally entitled to do so.
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For more on Virtual Unlimited B.V. and our products please consult our
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website: http://www.virtualunlimited.com/
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<plug>
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Most of the algorithms are implemented from reliable sources such as:
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"Handbook of Applied Cryptography"
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Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone
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CRC Press
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"Applied Cryptography", second edition
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Bruce Schneier
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Wiley
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For crypto enthusiasts these books are invaluable background material.
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IEEE P1363 "Standard Specifications for Public Key Cryptography" is a
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very interesting draft standard, which we will try to comply with.
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</plug>
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The structures in the library are geared towards exchange with Java
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and its security and cryptography classes. This library can also be
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accessed from Java by installing BeeCrypt for Java, a JCE 1.2 crypto
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provider and the counterpart of this library.
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Included in the library are:
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- entropy sources for initializing pseudo-random generators
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- pseudo-random generators: FIPS-186, Mersenne Twister
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- block ciphers: AES, Blowfish
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- hash functions: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256
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- keyed hash functions: HMAC-MD5, HMAC-SHA-1, HMAC-SHA-256
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- multi-precision integer library, with assembler-optimized routines
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for several processors
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- probabilistic primality testing, with optimized small prime trial
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division
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- discrete logarithm parameter generation over a prime field
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- Diffie-Hellman key agreement
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- DSA signature scheme
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- ElGamal signature scheme (two variants)
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- RSA keypair generation with chinese remainder theorem variables
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- RSA public & private key operations
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- DHAES encryption scheme
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Planned for the near future are:
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- mp64 library for operation on 64-bit computers (and possibly also
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on certain 32-bit platforms)
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- compliance with and compliance statements for IEEE P1363
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- more blockciphers (Twofish, ... )
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- more hash functions (RIPEMD-160, SHA-384, SHA-512, HAVAL, Tiger)
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- RSA signatures as specified by RFC-2440.
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- Elliptic Curves (ECDSA, ... )
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- more blockcipher modes (OFB, ... )
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The library has been tested on the following platforms:
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- FreeBSD 4.0 alpha
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- FreeBSD 4.0, 4.2 x86
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- includes assembler optimization (tuned for Pentium and higher)
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- Linux glibc 2.x alpha
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- Linux glibc 2.x arm
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- includes assembler optimization
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- Linux glibc 2.x ppc
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- includes assembler optimization for 32-bit PowerPC
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- Linux glibc 2.x sparc
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- includes assembler optimization for Sparc v8
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- Linux glibc 2.x x86
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- includes assembler optimization (tuned for Pentium and higher)
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- Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8 sparc (with Forte or gnu compilers)
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- includes assembler optimization for Sparc v8, v8plus and v9
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- Solaris 2.7/2.8 x86 (with Forte or gnu compilers)
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- includes assembler optimization (tuned for Pentium and higher)
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- Tru64 Unix alpha
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- Win32 (Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000)
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- includes assembler optimization (tuned for Pentium and higher)
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The library is currently in the process of being ported to:
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- Darwin (apparently Apple has decided to change the PPC assembler format;
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this will need a fix)
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- Cygwin (Can't seem to get the DLL to build properly with the current version of the autotools)
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For more information, refer to the HTML documentation in the docs directory.
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If you want to report bugs, make suggestions, contribute fixes or
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enhancements, please see the beecrypt-specific website:
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http://beecrypt.virtualunlimited.com/
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or contact me at mailto:beecrypt@virtualunlimited.com
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Sincerely,
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Bob Deblier
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