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 The Libgcrypt Library
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 This manual is for Libgcrypt (version 1.5.3, 25 July 2013), which is
 GNU's library of cryptographic building blocks.
 
    Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
      document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
      published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
      License, or (at your option) any later version. The text of the
      license can be found in the section entitled "GNU General Public
      License".
 

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* Introduction                 What is Libgcrypt.
* Preparation                  What you should do before using the library.
* Generalities                 General library functions and data types.
* Handler Functions            Working with handler functions.
* Symmetric cryptography       How to use symmetric cryptography.
* Public Key cryptography      How to use public key cryptography.
* Hashing                      How to use hash and MAC algorithms.
* Key Derivation               How to derive keys from strings
* Random Numbers               How to work with random numbers.
* S-expressions                How to manage S-expressions.
* MPI library                  How to work with multi-precision-integers.
* Prime numbers                How to use the Prime number related functions.
* Utilities                    Utility functions.
* Architecture                 How Libgcrypt works internally.
 
 Appendices
 
* Self-Tests                  Description of the self-tests.
* FIPS Mode                   Description of the FIPS mode.
* Library Copying             The GNU Lesser General Public License
                                 says how you can copy and share Libgcrypt.
* Copying                     The GNU General Public License says how you
                                 can copy and share some parts of Libgcrypt.
 
 Indices
 
* Figures and Tables          Index of figures and tables.
* Concept Index               Index of concepts and programs.
* Function and Data Index     Index of functions, variables and data types.
 
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