Libgcrypt is a cryptography library developed as a separated module of

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. It can also be used independently of GnuPG, but depends on its error-reporting library Libgpg-error. It provides functions for all fundamental cryptographic building blocks: Libgcrypt features its own ''multiple precision arithmetic'' implementation, with assembler implementations for a variety of processors, including Alpha, AMD64, HP PA-RISC, i386, i586, M68K, MIPS 3, PowerPC, and SPARC. It also features an ''

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gathering'' utility, coming in different versions for Unix-like and Windows machines. Usually multiple, stable branches of Libgcrypt are maintained in parallel; since 2022-03-28 this is the Libgrypt 1.10 branch as

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branch, plus the 1.8 branch as LTS ("long-term support") branch, which will be maintained at least until 2024-12-31.

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{{GNU Cryptographic software Free security software GNU Project software OpenPGP 2020 software

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