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diff --git a/development/libb2/slack-desc b/development/libb2/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..cfb81643835a --- /dev/null +++ b/development/libb2/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. +# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and +# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. +# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +libb2: libb2 (C library providing BLAKE2b, BLAKE2s, BLAKE2bp, and BLAKE2sp) +libb2: +libb2: Libb2 is the C library of the cryptographic hash function BLAKE2, an +libb2: improved version of of the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE. Like SHA-3, BLAKE2 +libb2: offers the highest security, yet is fast as MD5 on 64-bit platforms +libb2: and requires less RAM than SHA-2 or SHA-3 on low-end systems. +libb2: +libb2: The core algorithm of BLAKE2 is derived from ChaCha, a stream cipher +libb2: designed by Daniel J. Bernstein that has been proposed as a standard +libb2: cipher for TLS. +libb2: |