Botan is a
BSD-licensed cryptographic
Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adve ...
and TLS library written in
C++11. It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols, e.g.
SSL and TLS. It is used in the
Monotone distributed revision control program, the
OpenDNSSEC system, and
ISC's Kea DHCP server among other projects.
The project was originally called OpenCL, a name now used by
Apple Inc. and
Khronos Group for a
heterogeneous system programming framework. It was renamed Botan in 2002.
In 2007, the German
Federal Office for Information Security contracted
FlexSecure GmbH to add an implementation of
Card Verifiable Certificate
Card Verifiable Certificates (CVC) are digital certificates that are designed to be processed by devices with limited computing power such as smart cards. This is achieved by using simple type–length–value (TLV) encoding with fixed fields. Fix ...
s for
ePassports to Botan; the modified version of Botan was released under the name InSiTo.
Starting in 2015, the German Federal Office for Information Security funded a project, which included improving the documentation, test suite and feature set of Botan, culminating in 2017, when it was evaluated and recommended as a library suitable for "applications with increased security requirements".
See also
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Comparison of cryptography libraries
References
External links
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C++ libraries
Cryptographic software
Software using the BSD license
Transport Layer Security implementation
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