Botan (programming library)
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Botan is a BSD-licensed
cryptographic library written in C++
.
It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols. It is used in the Monotone
distributed revision control
program.
The project was originally called OpenCL, a name now used by Apple Inc. and Khronos Group
for their graphics card programming language
. It was renamed Botan in 2002.
In 2007 the German Federal Office for Information Security
contracted FlexSecure GmbH to add an implementation of Card Verifiable Certificates for ePassports to Botan; the modified version of Botan was released under the name InSiTo.
BSD licenses
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses. The original license was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix-like operating system after which it is named....
cryptographic library written in C++
C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
.
It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols. It is used in the Monotone
Monotone (software)
Monotone is an open source software tool for distributed revision control. Monotone tracks revisions to files, groups sets of revisions into changesets, and tracks history across renames.The focus of the project is on integrity over performance...
distributed revision control
Distributed revision control
A distributed revision control system , distributed version control or decentralized version control keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network.-Distributed vs...
program.
The project was originally called OpenCL, a name now used by Apple Inc. and Khronos Group
Khronos Group
The Khronos Group is a not-for-profit member-funded industry consortium based in Beaverton, Oregon, focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free APIs to enable the authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices...
for their graphics card programming language
OpenCL
OpenCL is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, and other processors. OpenCL includes a language for writing kernels , plus APIs that are used to define and then control the platforms...
. It was renamed Botan in 2002.
In 2007 the German Federal Office for Information Security
Federal Office for Information Security
The Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik is the German government agency in charge of managing computer and communication security for the German government...
contracted FlexSecure GmbH to add an implementation of Card Verifiable Certificates for ePassports to Botan; the modified version of Botan was released under the name InSiTo.