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Crypto++ Library - Class library of cryptographic schemes

Other features included in the library are:

• pseudo random number generators (PRNG): ANSI X9.17 appendix C, RandomPool
• password based key derivation functions: PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 from PKCS #5, PBKDF from PKCS #12 appendix B
• Shamir's secret sharing scheme and Rabin's information dispersal algorithm (IDA)
• fast multi-precision integer (bignum) and polynomial operations
• finite field arithmetics, including GF(p) and GF(2^n)
• prime number generation and verification
• useful non-cryptographic algorithms
• DEFLATE (RFC 1951) compression/decompression with gzip (RFC 1952) and zlib (RFC 1950) format support
• hex, base-32, and base-64 coding/decoding
• 32-bit CRC and Adler32 checksum
• class wrappers for these operating system features (optional):
  • high resolution timers on Windows, Unix, and Mac OS
  • Berkeley and Windows style sockets
  • Windows named pipes
  • /dev/random, /dev/urandom, /dev/srandom
  • Microsoft's CryptGenRandom on Windows
• A high level interface for most of the above, using a filter/pipeline metaphor
• benchmarks and validation testing
• x86, x86-64 (x64), MMX, and SSE2 assembly code for the most commonly used algorithms, with run-time CPU feature detection and code selection
• supports GCC-style and MSVC-style inline assembly, and MASM for x64
• certain versions are available in FIPS 140-2 validated form

Operating Systems

• could run on any OS, but not tested

Compilers

• Visual C++
• GCC
• Intel C++

Added : 2010-11-17 Amended: 2010-11-17 Licensing : Open Source

Crypto++ Library - Class library of cryptographic schemes
• Sourceforge project page
• Crypto++ Library website
• Submitted by:Domenic Laritz