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Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) version 2.0.0
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Date: July 5th, 2007
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Website: http://delta.affinix.com/qca/
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Mailing List: Delta Project <delta@lists.affinix.com>
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Project Lead/Maintainer (2003-current):
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Justin Karneges <justin@affinix.com>
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Development, Documentation, Unittests (2004-current):
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Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
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Special Thanks:
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Alon Bar-Lev, for smart card and design assistance
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Jack Lloyd, for Botan and X.509 mentoring
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L. Peter Deutsch, for the public domain MD5 implementation
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Steve Reid, for the public domain SHA1 implementation
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For installation or compiling instructions, see the INSTALL file.
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This library is licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License. See
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the COPYING file for more information.
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Changes
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New in 2.0.0
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- Rewritten for Qt 4
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- MAC algorithms
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- DSA
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- Diffie-Hellman
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- Secure random
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- Secure memory
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- Extensive X.509 API, supporting chains, crls, and validation
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- Smart cards and other key storage
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- OpenPGP
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- Cryptographic Message Syntax (for S/MIME)
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- probably more
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Description
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QCA is a library that provides an easy API for a range of crypographic
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features, including SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates, SASL, OpenPGP, smartcards,
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and much more.
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Functionality is supplied via plugins. This is useful for avoiding
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dependence on a particular crypto library and makes upgrading easier,
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as there is no need to recompile your application when adding or
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upgrading a crypto plugin.
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In order for QCA to be of much use, you'll want to install some plugins.
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QCA was originally created to support the security needs of the
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Psi XMPP/Jabber client project ( http://psi-im.org/ ).
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Have fun,
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-Justin
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