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The Libgcrypt Library

This manual is for Libgcrypt (version 1.4.5, 9 July 2009), which is GNU's library of cryptographic building blocks.

Copyright © 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of the license can be found in the section entitled “GNU General Public License”.

1. Introduction   What is Libgcrypt.
2. Preparation   What you should do before using the library.
3. Generalities   General library functions and data types.
4. Handler Functions   Working with handler functions.
5. Symmetric cryptography   How to use symmetric cryptography.
6. Public Key cryptography   How to use public key cryptography.
7. Hashing   How to use hash and MAC algorithms.
8. Random Numbers   How to work with random numbers.
9. S-expressions   How to manage S-expressions.
10. MPI library   How to work with multi-precision-integers.
11. Prime numbers   How to use the Prime number related functions.
12. Utilities   Utility functions.
13. Architecture   How Libgcrypt works internally. 
Appendices
A. Description of the Self-Tests   Description of the self-tests.
B. Description of the FIPS Mode   Description of the FIPS mode.
GNU Lesser General Public License   The GNU Lesser General Public License says how you can copy and share Libgcrypt.
GNU General Public License   The GNU General Public License says how you can copy and share some parts of Libgcrypt. 
Indices
List of Figures and Tables   Index of figures and tables.
Concept Index   Index of concepts and programs.
Function and Data Index   Index of functions, variables and data types. 










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