qca/README

Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) version 2.0.0
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Date: July 5th, 2007
Website: http://delta.affinix.com/qca/
Mailing List: Delta Project <delta@lists.affinix.com>

Project Lead/Maintainer (2003-current):
  Justin Karneges <justin@affinix.com>

Development, Documentation, Unittests (2004-current):
  Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>

Special Thanks:
  Alon Bar-Lev, for smart card and design assistance
  Jack Lloyd, for Botan and X.509 mentoring
  L. Peter Deutsch, for the public domain MD5 implementation
  Steve Reid, for the public domain SHA1 implementation


  For installation or compiling instructions, see the INSTALL file.

  This library is licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License.  See
  the COPYING file for more information.


Changes
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  New in 2.0.0
  - Rewritten for Qt 4
  - MAC algorithms
  - DSA
  - Diffie-Hellman
  - Secure random
  - Secure memory
  - Extensive X.509 API, supporting chains, crls, and validation
  - Smart cards and other key storage
  - OpenPGP
  - Cryptographic Message Syntax (for S/MIME)
  - probably more


Description
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  QCA is a library that provides an easy API for a range of crypographic
  features, including SSL/TLS, X.509 certificates, SASL, OpenPGP, smartcards,
  and much more.

  Functionality is supplied via plugins.  This is useful for avoiding
  dependence on a particular crypto library and makes upgrading easier,
  as there is no need to recompile your application when adding or
  upgrading a crypto plugin.

  In order for QCA to be of much use, you'll want to install some plugins.

  QCA was originally created to support the security needs of the
  Psi XMPP/Jabber client project ( http://psi-im.org/ ).


Have fun,
-Justin