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nettle

brew install nettle v4.0 GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-3.0-or-later

Low-level C cryptographic library providing hash, cipher, and public-key algorithms.

Why you might care

Nettle is a lightweight alternative to OpenSSL for applications that need AES, SHA, RSA, or ECDSA but want minimal dependencies and a simpler API. Primarily used as a build dependency (GnuTLS, GNU Guix) rather than directly; it depends only on GMP and avoids the complexity of OpenSSL.

Categories

library crypto

Alternatives

OpenSSL libgcrypt mbedTLS
70.1k
30-day installs · #73
225.7k
90-day · #81
797.8k
365-day · #78

Runtime dependencies

gmp

Links

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