Botan is a BSD-licensed

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and TLS library written in

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. It provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols, e.g. SSL and TLS. It is used in the

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program, the

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system, and ISC's Kea DHCP server among other projects. The project was originally called OpenCL, a name now used by

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and

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for a heterogeneous system programming framework. It was renamed Botan in 2002. In 2007, the German

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contracted FlexSecure GmbH to add an implementation of Card Verifiable Certificates 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".

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