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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2014-10-09 11:35:10 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2014-10-09 11:35:22 +0200
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mention nettle as the recommended crypto backend
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it does not provide access to basic cryptographic primitives. However
it abstracts the internal cryptographic back-end (see @ref{Cryptographic Backend}),
providing symmetric crypto, hash and HMAC algorithms, as well access
-to the random number generation.
+to the random number generation. For a low-level crypto API the usage of nettle
+@footnote{See @uref{http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/}.} library is recommended.
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* Symmetric algorithms::