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- Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA) version 2.0.0
- -------------------------------------------------
- Date: August 19th, 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>
- (March 2007 - August 2007 under Barracuda Networks employment)
-
- Development, Documentation, Unittests (2004-current):
- Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
-
- Special Thanks:
- Portugal Telecom (SAPO division), for sponsorship
- 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
- Jason Kim, for the CMS Signer graphics
-
-
- Install
- -------
- For installation or compiling instructions, see the INSTALL file.
-
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- License
- -------
- This library is licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public License. See
- the COPYING file for more information.
-
-
- Changes
- -------
- 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
- -----------
-
- 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/ ).
-
- API Documentation is located in the 'apidocs' subdirectory.
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- Have fun,
- -Justin
-