About:
Libmcrypt is a library which provides a uniform interface to several symmetric encryption algorithms. It is intended to have a simple interface to access encryption algorithms in ofb, cbc, cfb, and ecb modes. The algorithms it supports are DES, 3DES, RIJNDAEL, Twofish, IDEA, GOST, CAST-256, ARCFOUR, SERPENT, SAFER+, and more. The algorithms and modes are also modular so you can add and remove them on the fly without recompiling the library.

Author:
n.mavroyanopoulos [contact developer]

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8.55/10.00 (3 votes)

Homepage:
http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrypt/
Changelog:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]tes.php?group_id=87941&release_id=487459
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://mcrypt.cvs.sourceforge.net/mcrypt/
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=87941

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Security :: Cryptography, Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.5.8	19-Feb-2007	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• SuSE: local privilege escalation and remote denial-of-service in libmcrypt
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, Feb 26th 2003 07:16
  
• Debian: New libmcrypt packages fix buffer overflows and memory leak
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Tue, Jan 14th 2003 14:44
  

 Comments

[»] Great Library
by kapheine - Jul 31st 2000 10:11:12

Libmcrypt is a really good encryption library. It includes many different algorithms for encrypting and, using libmhash, includes a lot of hashing options. The manpage gives a brief description of all the different algorithms. Using this with PHP or mcrypt is a great combination.

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