From: Niels Möller Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:05:55 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Copied fiexed text from nettle.texinfo. X-Git-Tag: nettle_1.0_release_20010925~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=866981e56849d39919169c5616640cfbba16085a;p=thirdparty%2Fnettle.git Copied fiexed text from nettle.texinfo. Rev: src/nettle/README:1.3 --- diff --git a/README b/README index f2ad10d2..353ab5a7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ What is Nettle? A quote from the introduction in the Nettle Manual: 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 on subtle and not so + 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. @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ What is Nettle? A quote from the introduction in the Nettle Manual: memory allocation. It doesn't do any I/O. The idea is that one can build several application and context specific - interfaces on top of Nettle, and share the code, testcases, banchmarks, + interfaces on top of Nettle, and share the code, testcases, benchmarks, documentation, etc. For this first version, the only application using Nettle is LSH, and it uses an object-oriented abstraction on top of the library.