BeeCrypt is a open source

Open source

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  - LGPL

GNU Lesser General Public License

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 licensed implementation of the cryptographic algortims. The core library

Library (computer science)

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 (written in the C programming language

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

) implements the basic cryptographic

Cryptography

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...

 functions and provides various utility functions. It also has bindings to languages like C++/Java/Python/Assembly.

Algorithms

BeeCrypt supports a number of different cryptographic algorithms and utility functions:

Pseudorandom generators

Pseudorandom generator

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FIPS-186, Mersenne Twister

Block ciphers

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

Advanced Encryption Standard is a specification for the encryption of electronic data. It has been adopted by the U.S. government and is now used worldwide. It supersedes DES...

Blowfish

Blowfish (cipher)

Blowfish is a keyed, symmetric block cipher, designed in 1993 by Bruce Schneier and included in a large number of cipher suites and encryption products. Blowfish provides a good encryption rate in software and no effective cryptanalysis of it has been found to date...

Cryptographic hash function

Cryptographic hash function

A cryptographic hash function is a deterministic procedure that takes an arbitrary block of data and returns a fixed-size bit string, the hash value, such that an accidental or intentional change to the data will change the hash value...

s:

MD5

MD5

The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash function that produces a 128-bit hash value. Specified in RFC 1321, MD5 has been employed in a wide variety of security applications, and is also commonly used to check data integrity...

, SHA-1, SHA-256

Keyed hash functions

MD5/HMAC, SHA-1/HMAC, SHA-256/HMAC

Public-key cryptography

Public-key cryptography

Public-key cryptography refers to a cryptographic system requiring two separate keys, one to lock or encrypt the plaintext, and one to unlock or decrypt the cyphertext. Neither key will do both functions. One of these keys is published or public and the other is kept private...

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Basic RSA primitives and key pair generation

And some other cryptographic utility functions:

Multi-precision integer library, with assembler-optimized routines
Probabilistic primality testing, with optimized small prime trial division
Discrete logarithm parameter generation over a prime field
Diffie-Hellman key agreement
DHAES encryption scheme
ElGamal signature scheme (two variants)

External links

• BeeCrypt homepage