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Nettle

Nettle is a low-level cryptographic library written and maintained by Niels Möller, designed for use in crypto toolkits and applications such as GnuPG and LSH. It is dual licensed under the GPL version 2 or later and the LGPL version 3 or later.

Licensing at a Glance

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  1. Nettle is dual licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later and the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or later; users must comply fully with at least one of them.[1]

  2. A few individual files are under more permissive terms or in the public domain.[2]

  3. Nettle is designed to fit into crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages, into applications like LSH or GnuPG, or even into kernel space.[3]

  4. Releases are signed with Niels Möller's PGP key, and the public git repository is at git.lysator.liu.se.[4]

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References

  1. Nettle: a low-level cryptographic library · lysator.liu.se · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Nettle: a low-level cryptographic library · lysator.liu.se · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Nettle - a low-level crypto library · lysator.liu.se · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Nettle - a low-level crypto library · lysator.liu.se · retrieved 2026-09-27
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