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Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA)
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Description
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QCA is a library that provides an easy API for a range of cryptographic
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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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Install
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For installation or compiling instructions, see the INSTALL file.
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License
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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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History
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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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Old Changes list
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New in 2.1.0
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- Ported to Qt5 (Qt4 also supported)
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- New building system. CMake instead of qmake
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- Added CTR symetric cipher support to qca core
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- Added no padding encryption algorithm to qca core
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- qcatool2 renamed to qcatool
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- fixed crash in qcatool when only options provided on command line without any commands
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- Use plugins installation path as hard-coded runtime plugins search path
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- Added new functiion pluginPaths
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- Added functions to get runtime QCA version
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- Fixed 'no watch file' warnings in FileWatch
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- Added EME_PKCS1v15_SSL Encryption Algorithm
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- New implementation of SafeTimer to prevent crashes
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- Updated certificates for unittests
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- RSA Keys are permutable, can encrypt with private and decrypt with public
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- Add unloadProvider() function for symmetry with insertProvider()
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- Overloaded "makeKey" to derive a password depending on a time factor
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- Remove pointer to deinit() routine from QCoreApplication at deinitialization
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- Fix a couple of crashes where all plugins might not be available
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- Fix operating on keys with unrelated expired subkeys
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- Fixed timers in Synchronizer class
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- Dropped randomunittest
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- Fixed many unittests
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- qca-gnupg: internal refactoring
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- qca-gnupg: try both gpg and gpg2 to find gnupg executable
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- qca-gnupg: fixed some encodings problem
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- qca-ossl: no DSA_* dl groups in FIPS specification
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- qca-ossl: added missed signatures to CRLContext
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- qca-ossl: fixed certs time zone
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- qca-nss: fixed KeyLenght for Cipher
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- qca-botan: fixed getting result size for ciphers
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New in 2.0.3
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- Bugfix release, forward and backward compatible with 2.0.x
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- Fix compilation when using Qt/Windows SDK
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New in 2.0.2
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- Bugfix release, forward and backward compatible with 2.0.x
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- Fix compatibility with Qt 4.5 when QCA::Initializer appears before QApp
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- Don't convert to secure memory when Hash::update(QByteArray) is used
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- Use configure.exe instead of configwin.bat
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New in 2.0.1
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- Bugfix release, forward and backward compatible with 2.0.x
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- Ability to build as a Mac framework (and build this way by default)
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- On non-Mac Unix, the pkgconfig file is always qca2.pc, even in debug mode
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- Certificates containing wildcards are now matched properly
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- DirWatch/FileWatch now work
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- Keystore writes now work
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- Don't delete objects in their event handler (prevents Qt 4.4 warnings)
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- Fix potential hang with TLS in server mode
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- Windows version can be configured/installed using paths with spaces
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Old Developer list
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Project Lead/Maintainer (2003-2012):
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Justin Karneges <justin@affinix.com>
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(March 2007 - August 2007 under Barracuda Networks employment)
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Development, Documentation, Unittests (2004-2009):
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Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
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Development (2013-2017)
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Ivan Romanov <drizt@land.ru>
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Special Thanks:
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Portugal Telecom (SAPO division), for sponsorship
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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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Jason Kim, for the CMS Signer graphics
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