Botan: Version 1.2.8, November 21, 2003

Botan currently includes the following cryptographic algorithms:

* Public Key Algorithms: Diffie-Hellman, DSA, ElGamal, Nyberg-Rueppel,
    Rabin-Williams, RSA
* Block Ciphers: AES, Blowfish, CAST-128, CAST-256, CS-Cipher,
    DES/DESX/TripleDES, GOST, IDEA, Lion, Luby-Rackoff, MISTY1, RC2, RC5, RC6,
    SAFER-SK, Serpent, SHARK, Skipjack, Square, TEA, Threeway, Twofish, XTEA
* Stream Ciphers: ARC4, ISAAC, SEAL, WiderWake4+1
* Hash Functions: HAS-160, HAVAL, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160,
    SHA-160, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, Tiger, Whirlpool
* MACs: ANSI X9.19 MAC, EMAC, HMAC, MD5-MAC, OMAC, SSL3-MAC

In addition, there is support for many cryptographic standards, including
various IEEE, ISO, ANSI, and FIPS standards.

For information on building, read the section "Building the Library" in
doc/api.ps. The license can be found in doc/license.txt, and the ChangeLog is
in doc/log.txt.

Check http://botan.randombit.net/ for news and new versions. If you have any
questions, comments, or requests, send mail. Also highly recommended is joining
the mailing lists - links to the archives and subscriptions forms can be found
on the main web page.

Regards,
   Jack Lloyd (lloyd@randombit.net)
