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| From: | Sven <luther@d...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Cryptokit: cryptographic library for OCaml |
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:02:14PM +0200, Xavier Leroy wrote: > My amateur, unfocused interest for applications of cryptography led me > to implement the Cryptokit library of cryptographic primitives for > OCaml, providing: > > - Symmetric-key cryptography: AES, DES, Triple-DES, ARCfour. > - Public-key cryptography: RSA. > - Hash functions and MACs: SHA-1, MD5, and MACs based on AES and DES. > - Random number generation. > - Encodings and compression: base 64, hexadecimal, Zlib compression. > > It is available at http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html > > >From a language standpoint, while the low-level crypto code in this > library is uninteresting (it's the same snippets of C that you'll find > everywhere), I'm relatively proud of the Caml high-level interface, > which makes tasteful use of objects (if I may say so myself). > > Enjoy, > > - Knivre Yrebl Mmm, what are the legal restriction related to this ? Is it legal to distribute it in france (legislation may have changed since last i checked about such things a few years ago) ? Is it legal to distribute it from an US based server (i think yes, but you would need to declare the software to the NSA or something such). Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners